The Rhetoric of Extremism The Ethnic Turkish Minority in Western Thrace Greece

A renevved interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls drew me back to EdmundWilson's pioneering study vvhich is stili so often referred to in continuingdiscussions of the subject.1 An admirer of Axel's Castle and avvare of thepolitical correctness of the author's Apology to the Iraquoıs, I was notprepared to find a crippling bias in this book. The surprise is increased by theauthor's disarming truthfulness about his linguistic limitations and his candorabout his non-partisan stance. Since he professes himself neither Jew norChristian, one is prepared to find him free of the biases vvhich have delayedthe 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'sdiscussion of the scrolls themselves. Wilson really does not çare that"ignorant" Catholics might find their traditional faith disturbed by nevvinformation about the historical Jesus, for example

The Rhetoric of Extremism The Ethnic Turkish Minority in Western Thrace Greece