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Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity Geza Vermes

Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity By Geza Vermes

Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity by Geza Vermes


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Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, these groundbreaking essays explore the significance of the scrolls for our understanding of the New Testament and Christian Origins.

Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity Summary

Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity by Geza Vermes

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, these groundbreaking essays explore the significance of the scrolls for our understanding of the New Testament and Christian Origins. Updated in the light of the most recent scrolls research these essays offer an overview of Dead Sea Scrolls research, ranging from an examination of 'The Essenes in History' to a study of 'Biblical Proof-Texts in Qmran Literature' Volume 56 in the Library of Second Temple Studies

Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity Reviews

'Scholars who seek safe passage through the stormy seas of current 'revisionist' theories concerning the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls will find this compact volume a delight. It provides a welcome and insightful evaluation of such opinions from a long-established Qumran scholar.' ~ Brian Capper, Vol 28.5, 2006 -- Brian Capper * Journal for the Study of the New Testament *
'[A] welcome addition...to the available literature on the Dead Sea Scrolls...This volume is well worth reading.' -- Alistair I. Wilson, Themelios, 32/1 * Themelios *

About Geza Vermes

Geza Vermes is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He is editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies and Director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Table of Contents

1. A Bird's Eye View of Dead Sea Scrolls Research; 2. Access to the Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years of Personal; Experience, On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property; 3. The Essenes in History; 4. The Leadership of the Qumran Community; 5. The Qumran Community, the Essenes, and Nascent Christianity; 6. Biblical Exegesis at Qumran; 7. Biblical Proof-Texts in Qumran Literature; 8. The Eschatological World View in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament

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NPB9780567083876
9780567083876
056708387X
Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity by Geza Vermes
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2005-06-26
96
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