More on the Pierced Messiah Text from Eisenman and Vermes

Few of the recently published Dead Sea Scrolls have generated as much controversy as payment 4Q285, popularly known as the Pierced Messiah text. The debate over its meaning has raged in the pages of this magazine. Now two of the principal scholars in that debate, Robert Eisenman, chair of the department of religious studies at California State University, Long Beach, and Geza Vermes, director of the Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, continue their discussion of this fascinating text. Now that everyone has had their say about the so-called Pierced Messiah text,a isn’t […]