Geza Vermes has been associated with the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the very beginning, and his translation of them, now published in this volume, is regarded as a classic.
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Advantages: A good, comprehensive introduction Disadvantages: Leaves a few interpretations out
...history, translation, and interpretation. An emeritus professor of Oxford University, he wrote this recent book after half a century had passed since the first scrolls were discovered. In the first chapter, Vermes traces the history of discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, starting with the caves near Qumran and expanding from there to incorporate a few other finds and sites. In all, eleven caves were discovered in the first decades of scroll exploration. ... ...rather in a Cairo genizah, an attic for documents, that was found much earlier, but later linked to the same cache of scrolls as was found around the Dead Sea).
Vermes devotes several chapters to looking at the dominant theories about the community that lived at Qumran. He addresses the issues of identity in terms of who the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Zealots and the Essenes were, and their likely relationship, if any, to the community at Qumran. ...
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An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls - Geza Vermes
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Type: Non-Fiction
Genre: Religion
Title: An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Geza Vermes
ISBN: 0334027845; 080063229X
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Geza Vermes has been associated with the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the very beginning, and his translation of them, now published in this volume, is regarded as a classic.
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