Providential Accidents: An Autobiography

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SCM Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 258 pages
The fascinating autobiography of the Dead Sea Scrolls expert who also embodies the journey of Jewish-Christian relations in the twentieth-century.

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Contents

Prelude 19461948
53
Discovery of the Bible 19481950
62
Meeting the Dead Sea Scrolls 19501952
71
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About the author (1998)

Geza Vermes was a religious scholar who became one of the "essential translators and a vocal advocate for their broad dissemination" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to the New York Times. Until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, but continued to teach at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He was born on June 22, 1924, in Hungary and died on May 8, 2013, after a recurrence of cancer. He was 88.

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