The Story of the Scrolls (2010 Vermès), book
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The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) is a book by Géza Vermès.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in London [England] and New York, NY: Penguin, 2010.
Table of contents
The state of Biblical studies before Qumran -- Epoch-making discoveries and early blunders -- The Ecole Biblique, seedbed of future troubles -- Somnolence -- politics -- scandal -- The battle over the Scrolls and its aftermath -- What is new in the non-sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls? -- The novelty of the sectarian Scrolls -- Unfinished business : archaeology -- group identity -- history -- The Qumran revolution in the study of Biblical and post-Biblical Jud
External links
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