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The Changing Faces of Jesus
The Changing Faces of Jesus
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A world-renowned scholar explores the New Testament writings about Jesus that have defined two millennia of Christian belief, worship, and speculation.
Geza Vermes is internationally recognized for his pioneering biblical scholarship as well as for his definitive English-language translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now, in his latest work, he takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the New Testament to reveal the true historical figure of Jesus hidden beneath the oldest Gospels.
How was this Palestinian charismatic transformed by later generations into the heavenly savior elaborated by the Christian Church? Vermes acts as a sensitive, learned, and thought-provoking guide. His brilliant account presents the fruit of both a lifetime's scholarship and a lifelong quest to understand a solitary giant among Jewish prophets.
Geza Vermes is internationally recognized for his pioneering biblical scholarship as well as for his definitive English-language translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now, in his latest work, he takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the New Testament to reveal the true historical figure of Jesus hidden beneath the oldest Gospels.
How was this Palestinian charismatic transformed by later generations into the heavenly savior elaborated by the Christian Church? Vermes acts as a sensitive, learned, and thought-provoking guide. His brilliant account presents the fruit of both a lifetime's scholarship and a lifelong quest to understand a solitary giant among Jewish prophets.
Comprehensive, definitive and sympathetic...a magnificent achievement. (The Independent (London))
(A masterpiece...the best book by a very remarkable writer. (A. N. Wilson)
Author Bio: Geza Vermes, professor emeritus of Jewish studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, is the author of a series of seminal books on the historical Jesus and of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English.
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