The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

Acknowledgments

We should like to thank Robert Eisenman for the generosity with which he made available to us his time, his energy and .his insights. We are particularly grateful for the light he has cast on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, and on the social, political and religious forces at work in the historical backdrop. Our debt to him will become more than apparent in the course of the following pages. We should also like to thank Heather Eisenman.

We should like to thank Mrs Joan Allegro for the access she provided to her husband’s material and for her sympathy and support in our undertaking.

We should like to thank the staff of Jonathan Cape, specifically Tom Maschler, Tony Colwell, Jenny Cottom, Lynn Boulton and Helen Donlon; and Alison Mansbridge our editor for her suggestions and the patience she displayed in the most arduous circumstances.

We should like to thank Rod Collins for fostering fiscal well-being and peace of mind.

We should like to thank our agent Barbara Levy for presiding over the project, as well as Ann Evans, who co-instigated it and has now found a new vocation as medium for the wandering and restless shade of Jehan l’Ascuiz.

Finally, we should like to thank the staffs of the British Library Reading Room, and of the London Library.

And, it goes without saying, we should like to thank our ladies.