Géza Vermes

Geza Vermes (born June 22, 1924 in Mako, Hungary, died May 8, 2013 ), sometimes also written Géza Vermes, was a British scholar of comparative religion, theologian and orientalist, who mainly because of his work on Jesus of Nazareth and the scrolls the Dead Sea has been known.

Jesus was not described by him as the Messiah or Son of God, but as a typical Jewish scholar of his time, the act only on Jews, not proselytize or wanted to establish a new religion.

Life

Geza Vermes had Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism in his seventh year. Both parents died in the Holocaust. After the end of World War II Geza Vermes was ordained a priest. As a result of his studies, he began to be interested in his Jewish roots, was active against anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church, from 1957 he entered the church and known back to his Jewish identity.

Geza Vermes studied in Budapest and Louvain Oriental and languages. In 1953, he completed a doctorate on the scrolls of the Dead Sea, which he examined one of the first scientists after their discovery and translated in part. From 1957 to 1981 he taught at the University of Newcastle and Oxford. Because of his research that has been classified by some as a pioneer, he was the first Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford. From 1991, he was head of the Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Publications (selection)

  • Scripture and tradition in Judaism. Haggadic studies. ( = Studia post- biblica. Vol. 4). 2nd edition. Brill, Leiden 1983, ISBN 90-04-07096-6.
  • Jesus the Jew. A historian reads the Gospels ( "Jesus the Jew. A Historian 's Reading of the Gospels", 1973). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 1993, ISBN 3-7887-1373-9.
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls. Qumran in Perspective. JSOT Press, Sheffield 1994, ISBN 0-334-02565-6.
  • The Religion of Jesus the Jew. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 1993, ISBN 0-8006-2797-0.
  • The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Penguin, London 1997, ISBN 0-14-044952-3 ( sold more than half a million times).
  • The Changing Faces of Jesus. Penguin, London 2001, ISBN 0-14-026524-4.
  • Jesus in his Jewish Context. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2003, ISBN 0-8006-3623-6 (former title Jesus and the World of Judaism ).
  • The Authentic Gospel of Jesus. Penguin, London 2004, ISBN 0-14-100360- X.
  • The Passion. the true story of the last days in the life of Jesus ( " The Passion", 2005). Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-89678-291-6.
  • Anno Domini. A who's who in Jesus' day ( "Who's Who in the Age of Jesus ", 2005). Luebbe, Bergisch- Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7857-2347-0.
  • The birth of Jesus. History and Legend ( " The Nativity. History and Legend", 2006). Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89678-348-6.
  • The Resurrection. History and Myth. Penguin, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-14-104622-8.
  • The Essenes According to the Classical Sources ( Oxford Centre = Textbook. Vol. 1). JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1990, ISBN 1-85075-139-0 (along with Martin Goodman).
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