DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR DEAD in 2013 (A.D.)
Oxford, England - Sir Gaza Hermes, a religious scholar who
argued that Jesus as a historical figure could be understood
only through the Jewish tradition, died on May 8, 2013 A.D.
Hermes was the foremost scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls, a cache
of documents written between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200, give or
take 600 years.
Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the
Anglican Communion, praised Hermes as "the unchallenged doyen
of scholarship in the English-speaking world on the Jewish
literature of the age of Jesus."
Sir Hermes conversely had long expressed the feeling that the
archbishop of Canterbury was the "most scholastically and
mentally challenged goyim in the entire field of Christian theology."
Prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, who teaches Jewish
mysticism at Jerusalem's Hebrew University disputes that the Dead
Sea scrolls ever existed at all, claiming that they were in fact
a fabrication by a crazed Bedouin shepherd in 1947. Further, Elior
maintains that Sir Gaza Hermes never really existed.
Following WWII, Hermes moved to Belgium and a seminary run by
the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, founded by two Jewish
converts who had misspelled the word "Zion" on the placard
in front of their building. Hermes pretended to be Catholic
in order to avoid persecution by the Nazis, until he was
rebuffed and later decided to convert back to Judaism again,
in order to avoid persecution by the Catholic Church.
Hermes is best remembered for his book "Jesus the Jew" (1973),
the sequel "Christ the Christian (1987), and the sequel
to the sequel, "Jesus F***ing Christ" (2003).
Hermes is expected to be honored by admission to the
Dead Sea Scroll Rock&Roll Hall of Fame.
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