About this title: Over the last two years a controversy has erupted in the world's press over the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem between 1947 and 1956. Professor Geza Vermes of Oxford calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century", Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University protests that "there is no ...
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Description: Good. Paperback, Corgi Books, 1984, cover has creases, shelf, edge and corner wear, text is clean with photographs, spine is tight, ships within 24 hr. sku Z 10 D. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780671734541ISBN:0671734547
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CorGI
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780552138789ISBN:0552138789
Description: Paperback Acceptable condition only. Edge wear. Light spine creases. Light stains bottom corner area of early pages. Minor other edge stains. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993-04-12
ISBN-13:9780671797973ISBN:0671797972
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
"Overly speculative, but thought-provoking. Too much about the conspiracy/cover-up and not enough on the scrolls, though maybe that's because the book came out the very same year the scrolls were finally made fully public. Bad timing."
"It is amazing to me how the scrolls can be used by some to discount Christ and his role on Earth. I just find the similarities to the bible a testament of the 12 tribes of Israel and Christ's message to visit his other sheep."
"When you read a book that questions other research it's important to check how conclusions are reached and why. If a translator goes through the work and gives a faithful translation with a careful study of history and archeology to match, then you get an article that's useful. When other "scholars" try to cast doubt on the earlier work they have a clear bias. When they say there was a deception, they are accusing the others of intentionally falsifying things. True scholars may question material and come to different conclusions based on different views. Do people lie? Sure. But most researchers know primary sources and secondary sources and link to the archeology and the history of the region.
The only people who set out to deceive are those who are trying to sell books and set up conspiracy theories. It's doesn't do a whole lot to assure accuracy to call the original translators liars and then use their research to come to alternative views. Revisionist history strikes again.
I've also read some other works on the Dead Sea Scrolls from the main translators and other historians. I find those views more scholarly and accurate."
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