Professor Geza Vermes Lecture

The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a lecture presented by Professor Geza Vermes at Louisiana State University's Hill Memorial Library on September 29, 2009. Geza Vermes was born at Mako in Hungary in 1924. He studied in Budapest and in Louvain (Belgium), where he read Theology and Oriental history and languages, and in 1953 obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on the historical framework of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, he continues to lecture in Oxford and worldwide.

[@endtimetuber]

Thank you Professor for all your great excellent work & LSU for posting. Thanks again. God bless you and all your loved ones.

[@chatsociety]

Amazing to hear how the dead sea scrolls came about.

[@wayman29]

RIP Professor Geza Vermes!! We just lost an excellent scholar!

[@hermanhale9258]

I found a library book from 1955 by Millar Burrows called The Dead Sea Scrolls. From a quick skim of it, it looks like much has not advanced in this field. Interesting to read the alternate theories that Burrows explains and discards.

[@apologiamixer]

This talk is a preview of his book "The Story of the Scrolls" which is a must for anyone interested in the subject of Qumran. He must have felt quite vindicated to outlive so many who frustrated the Scrolls project.

[@dgdhqgdyukqud]

Thank you. :D

[@dgdhqgdyukqud]

You study us, I study you.

[@dgdhqgdyukqud]

"Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on Jesus the Jew, as seen in the broader context of the narrative scope of Jewish history and theology, while questioning the basis of some Christian teachings on Jesus."
I know what i am talking about.

[@Angelimir]

Cutest Hungarian accent ever :)

[@dgdhqgdyukqud]

Read Matthew 20. :)

[@hermanhale9258]

Every American history lecture doesn't have to start with Columbus and every Dead Sea Scrolls lecture doesn't have to start with how they were found.