The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective

by Géza Vermes

Book by Geza Vermes

Genres: History, Nonfiction

238 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1977

About the author

Géza Vermes was a Jewish Hungarian scholar and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian.

Reviews

[Esteban · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hay como cien libros con el mismo título, entre los que seguramente habrá muchos mediocres, algunos pésimos y otros buenos. El de Vermès parece ser de esos últimos. Su lectura sería mucho más llevadera si los fragmentos, intercalados entre el estudio documental y una reseña historia de las sectas esenias y de Qumran, hubiera sido puesta al final.

[Gregg Shoemaker · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very good overall summation of the Scrolls and what they represent (according to this author and other historians). It is full of other references that a reader could use for further and more precise research/study.

[Tamás Tóth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vermes was convertite, Augustinian priest and monk, but deVaux Jesuite' frater so antisemitist, that Vermes review Judaism, and let by member of a Liberal Synagogue of London.

[Anthony Sako · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good translation, and an interesting read.