Article Title

Scrolls Scholar Speaks at BYU

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Keywords

Dead Sea Scrolls, Geza Vermes, messiah texts, BYU lecture

Abstract

Professor Geza Vermes, a prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholar from England, gave a lecture at BYU in November sponsored by Religious Education, the Kennedy Center, and FARMS. He spoke on messiah texts in the scrolls and reviewed the history of the scrolls' discovery and translation. He also spoke of the tangled politics both among scrolls scholars and between those scholars and the public.

Recommended Citation

(1996) "Scrolls Scholar Speaks at BYU," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol16/iss1/5