The Rhetoric of Extremism The Ethnic Turkish Minority in Western Thrace Greece
Abstract
A renevved interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls drew me back to Edmund
Wilson's pioneering study vvhich is stili so often referred to in continuing
discussions of the subject.1
An admirer of Axel's Castle and avvare of the
political correctness of the author's Apology to the Iraquoıs, I was not
prepared to find a crippling bias in this book. The surprise is increased by the
author's disarming truthfulness about his linguistic limitations and his candor
about his non-partisan stance. Since he professes himself neither Jew nor
Christian, one is prepared to find him free of the biases vvhich have delayed
the translation and given rise to opposing theories of dating of the scrolls.
Indeed, on the surface, a ration and objective spirit seems to pervade Wilson's
discussion of the scrolls themselves. Wilson really does not çare that
"ignorant" Catholics might find their traditional faith disturbed by nevv
information about the historical Jesus, for example
Keywords
Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Political Science
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
A. Clare Brandabur
This is me
Publication Date
May 1, 1992
Submission Date
January 1, 1992
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 1992 Number: 22
Cited By
Edmund Wilson, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the rhetoric of protection
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