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Authentic Gospel of Jesus by Geza Vermes
Category: Religion
Who was the real Jesus? What was the original message of the charismatic Jewish healer and moralist who changed the world? Renowned Biblical scholar Geza Vermes distils a lifetime?s knowledge to examine every saying attributed to Jesus, scraping aside millennia of Christian tradition and writing to retu ...Show more
Christian Beginnings - From Nazareth to Nicaea by Geza Vermes
Category: Non-Fiction
In this deeply learned and beautifully written book, Geza Vermes tells the enthralling story of early Christianity's emergence The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, s ...Show more
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
Category: History
Geza Vermes, translator and editor of "The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the ...Show more
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
Category: Non-Fiction
Geza Vermes, the author of "The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" and acknowledged expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's ...Show more
Jesus the Jew by Geza Vermes
Category: Non-Fiction
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 m ...Show more
The Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Compass Ser.
Who was the real Jesus? How was this Palestinian charismatic transformed by later generations into the heavenly savior who is the focus of the Christian Church? Did Jesus's own teachings lead to his divine characterization? Or did the church-centered needs of gentile Christianity hide his true face, obs ...Show more
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Wri ...Show more
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition) by Geza Vermes
Category: Religion
A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Geza Vermes's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, discovered in the Judean ...Show more
The Religion of Jesus the Jew by Geza Vermes
Category: Non-Fiction
The leading Jewish scholar of the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls trains his attention on Jesus' own religious life—his teaching, preaching, and practice.
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