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If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.

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The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.

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The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Geza Vermes

Geza Vermes

Born: June 22, 1924
Died: May 8, 2013 (aged 88)
Bio: Géza Vermes was a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian.
Known for:
  1. Jesus the Jew (1973)
  2. The authentic gospel of Jesus (2003)
  3. Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (1997)
  4. Christian Beginnings (2012)
  5. The changing faces of Jesus (2000)

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