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Jesus the Jew
by: Geza Vermes

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 232
EAN: 9780800614430
ISBN: 0800614437
Label: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 01, 1981
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Sales Rank: 301556
Studio: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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This now classic book is a significant corrective to several recent developments in the study of the historical Jesus. In contrast to depictions of Jesus as a wandering Cynic teacher, Geza Vermes offers a portrait based on evidence of charismatic activity in first-century Galilee. Vermes shows how the major New Testament titles of Jesus-prophet, Lord, Messiah, son of man, Son of God-can be understood in this historical context. The result is a description of Jesus that retains its power and its credibility.

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- Not One Jot or Tittle
This book should be made compulsory reading in all the high schools of the Western world, including (especially) Christian ones.
Thousands of readers must have shared my experience of startled awakening. Texts from the Gospels which, if you had a Christian background, had been familiar all your life, all at once became visible. You saw what they meant.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Don't go into any Samaritan towns, or any streets where non-Jews live, but go only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel."
And when a non-Jewish woman asked him to heal her daughter, Jesus said: "Bread that was meant for the children is not given to dogs."
Jesus also said: "Not one dot or pen-stroke can be removed from the Torah until the end of the world"... (So I'm like, OMG, Jesus was a Jew!)

Though it was published back in 1973 and naturally looks a little sketchy and tentative beside ... Read More

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- A new look at Jesus
In this ground-breaking 1973 work, an eminent Jewish scholar initiates the third wave of the quest for the historic Jesus. Rejecting all pretensions of Jesus' divinity, Geza Vermes consults Jewish literature for two hundred years prior to the birth of Jesus to two hundred years after, looking for cultural, linguistic and historical complements in the Synoptic Gospels that might put his subject into clearer focus. His discovery is not at all unflattering. Jesus was a Hasidim, one of a line of Galilean miracle-workers. He preached, healed, and exorcized demons, was comfortable with the title of prophet, and as a Jew himself, with "son of God," but not, "Son of God," the Messiah. Vermes' command of his material is overwhelming and novel. His conclusions are conditioned by the available historical evidence without reference to modern theology, but the reader is impressed with his objectivity in establishing only ... Read More

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- Jesus the Jew; PERIOD
Geza Vermes is an authority on the life and religion of Jesus and this book cements that statement.
If you want to understand Jesus' life and religion in its Jewish context; read this book.
If you want to better understand 2nd Temple Judaism; read this book.

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- One of the greatest books of the Twentieth Century.
I read this book following up some references in G. de St. Croix's book "Class Struggles in the Ancient Greek World" (well worth reading itself!); it came up in passing a few times and seemed intriguing.

I was simply blown away by the text itself. It is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I shook the whole time. All the opacity concerning the Gospel and teaching of Jesus, how it could all have come about: it is made so plain. All other treatments I have seen of "the historical Jesus" are dust and ashes by comparison.

I have read some of Vermes' later works - he has taken a few things back and adjusted claims, unsurprisingly. It is worth reading a recent work, then, in conjunction with this one, but the force of the original work is unparalleled in the later ones. For those doubtful of Vermes' greatness, I recommend the discussion of the references of Jesus to ... Read More

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