Harvard Professor John Strugnell, chief editor of the Dead Sea Scroll publication team, has called Geza Vermes, one of the world’s leading Dead Sea Scroll scholars, “incompetent.” In an interview published in Scientific American,a Strugnell claimed that Vermes was not “competent” to examine an unpublished scroll because Vermes had not done serious work. Vermes, a senior Oxford don, is the author of several books on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the widely used Penguin edition, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, now in its third (1987) edition. His other books on the subject are Discovery in the Judean Desert […]
