The analysis of such ultra-sensitive material requires calm judgmentand Geza Vermes,a retired Oxford professor, is widely credited with having the coolest head among the scholarswho have devoted their careers to studying the scrolls and sharing their insights. Some of hiswriting is controversial. He has, for example, strong personal opinions on the historicalJesus, and like anybody who enters that field he has attracted both admirers and detractors.But in this short personal memoir, he sticks mainly to the known facts about the scrolls, andthe arguments they have caused. On this matter, he is careful and fair-minded.
分析这样极度敏感的材料需要心平气和的判断而在专事研究死海古卷并与他人分享见解的学者中,格左维尔麦希这位牛津大学的退休教授被广泛的认为是头脑最为冷静的一位。他所写的文字有的也具争议性。比如,他对历史上的耶稣持有强烈的个人观点;和其他任何进入该领域的人一样,他也吸引了崇拜者和诋毁他的人。但在这本短小的个人回忆录中,他基本上只讲述了关于那些古卷已知的事实和古卷所引起的争论。在这件事上,他小心谨慎,公平持正。
It may help that his personal story stands at the tragic interface between Christianity andJudaism in the 20th century. As the 85-year-old Mr Vermes recalls, his Hungarian Jewishparents died in the Holocaust, even though the family, which was not religious, had convertedto Catholicism in the 1930s. Young Geza was saved by the family s Catholic contacts and wenton to study in western Europe. Ordained as a Catholic priest and educated at Catholicuniversities, he later reverted to his Jewish roots. As a lifelong analyst of the scrolls, whoseefforts to maximise scholarly access have been gratefully recalled by younger biblicalscholars, such as Britain s Philip Davies, Mr Vermes is well placed to dissect the precisesignificance of this unique discovery, and to assess the many theories it triggered.
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