Geza Vermes is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He is editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies and Director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

'Scholars who seek safe passage through the stormy seas of current 'revisionist' theories concerning the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls will find this compact volume a delight. It provides a welcome and insightful evaluation of such opinions from a long-established Qumran scholar.' ~ Brian Capper, Vol 28.5, 2006

• 1. A Bird's Eye View of Dead Sea Scrolls Research; 2. Access to the Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years of Personal; Experience, On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property; 3. The Essenes in History; 4. The Leadership of the Qumran Community; 5. The Qumran Community, the Essenes, and Nascent Christianity; 6. Biblical Exegesis at Qumran; 7. Biblical Proof-Texts in Qumran Literature; 8. The Eschatological World View in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament