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The Battle of the Scrolls
For nearly 2000 years Jews habe built their way of life, and way of looking at life, around a legend; but recent interpretations and decipherings of the Dead Sea Scrolls have turned that legend into real, inscribed facts. That is the view of Mr. Raphael, a Briton who combines a career in Her Majesty’s Civil Service (Treasury) with writing. This article deals with some of the questions raised in his new book, THE TENDER BRANCH : AN EXCURSION INTO JEWISH HISTORY,to be published later this year by Alfred Knopf.
The Special Case
CHATM RAPHAEL, who has published under the pseudonym Jocelyn Davey, is a former Oxford don,currently a British government official, who draws upon his experience for his fiction. His first novel, A CAPITOL OFFENSE, was a spoof detective story set in the British Embassy in Washington, and his defective, Ambrose Usher, appears in his other novels. He has also written a number of short stories.