I've recently been speculating regarding religious and political cross-pollination...that the God or Goddess of This World might be the common source...and that the sacred writings might be a mixture of fact and fiction, truth and error, good and evil. Think Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer, Isis, Hathor, Mary, et al. Could the Teachings of Jesus (which I adore) predate the Life of Christ? Were they a script? Could the God or Goddess of This World have written the Pauline Epistles, determined the contents of the Biblical Cannon...and written the works of William Shakespeare? Don't scoff or laugh until you've done some digging! Francis Bacon may be a Red Herring! John Strugnell would be a good place to begin regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strugnell In 1990 Strugnell gave an interview to Ha'aretz in which he said that Judaism was a "horrible religion" which "should not exist,". He also said that Christianity was "a Jewish heresy, and we deal with our heretics in different ways. You are a phenomenon that we haven't managed to convert -- and we should have managed." Beware of Zahi Hawass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsim...eature=channel I have that on the authority of an unnamed real-live Egyptologist...who is a real cutie...by the way!
Namaste