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“The importance of this book is that, with the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, for the first time scholars were able to see how Jesus fitted in to his Jewish background. The dead sea scrolls didn’t disprove anything about Christianity. What they did was to give us the background out of which Christianity emerged. This books is both scholarly and readable, which is amazing considering that English was about Vermes’ fifth language.” Read more...
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