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Géza Vermes, FBA (Hungarian: [ˈvɛrmɛʃ ˈɡeːzɒ]; 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Jewish–Hungarian descent—one who also served as a Roman Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
May 20, 2013 · In the November/December 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Geza Vermes explores the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion. His personal biography in its own way matched the drama of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
May 16, 2013 · Geza Vermes, a religious scholar who argued that Jesus as a historical figure could be understood only through the Jewish tradition from which he emerged, and who helped expand that...
May 12, 2013 · LONDON (AP) — Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. He died on Wednesday, David Ariel, president...
One notable exception is Geza Vermes, professor emeritus of Jewish studies at Oxford University and director of the Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Vermes specializes in the crucial centuries that gave birth to both Rabbinic Judaism and to Christianity. He is particularly known for his work on the ...
May 9, 2013 · An Oxford don, professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Vermes was a specialist on the historical Jesus and the world that he inhabited.
May 18, 2013 · Geza Vermes, a Jew, ex-priest and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on May 8th aged 88. May 18th 2013. HIS life, he said, had been a series of “providential accidents”....
