Michael O. Wise

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Eisenman-Les-Manuscrits-de-la-mer-Morte-reveles/2...

> Aux éd. Fayard, une somme sur Les manuscrits de la mer Morte révélés de Robert Eisenman et Michaël Wise, qui explique les guerres pichrocholines entre spécialistes de bords différents qui ont retardé la publication d’une grande partie des manuscrits de la grotte 4, la plus riche, à des fins politico-religieuses : cinquante des textes les plus importants se trouvent enfin traduits dans ce livre.
—Nouvelles Clés, été 1995… (mere)

I've become somewhat of an expert - as to a reader, that is - on the Dead Sea Scrolls. This summary is not as captivating as that by Millar Burrows - one of the first archaeologists involved with the Bedouin, Kando and Shaia when scraps of velum were offered for sale to the world in 1946/47. The reader is introduced to the Essenes one of three branches of Judaism in the first century - along with the Pharisees and Sadducees. See similarities to the early Christians. You'll wonder if John the Baptist had been an Essene.… (mere)