Absence Quote by Geza Vermes

“The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close…

— Philip W Comfort

For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19…

— Ronen Bergman

“Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the…

— Herman Wouk

The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense…

— Geza Vermes

“Most scholars today agree that the Gospels cannot be regarded strictly as history; not as many may be prepared to admit how little history…

— Kamal Salibi

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

— William F. Albright

“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for…

— John Warwick Montgomery

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

— Elie Wiesel

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you…

— Rodney Stark

The New Testament is not a historical document.

— Reza Aslan

“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible…

— Israel Finkelstein

“is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of…

— Israel Finkelstein