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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Vermès, Géza, 1924-2013. Searching for the real Jesus. London : SCM Press, 2009 (OCoLC)526591338 |
Named Person: | Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ.; Jesus Christus; Jesus Christus.; Judiska tolkningar av Jesus. |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Géza Vermès |
ISBN: | 9780334048282 0334048281 |
OCLC Number: | 1274239756 |
Notes: | The item is a collection of lectures and articles from the press. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 185 pages) |
Contents: | Part one, Jesus. The age of Jesus -- Jesus the Jew -- The changing faces of Jesus in the New Testament and since -- Jesus God in spite of Himself : an interview with the Parisian magazine Le Point -- When you strip away all the pious fiction, what is left of the real Jesus? -- Jesus was a great man -- Benedict XVI and, Jesus of Nazareth : a review -- The truth about the historical Jesus -- Was Jesus really human? -- A television documentary on Christ and the British press : Channel 4's, Jesus : the evidence (April 1984) -- Part two, Christmas, Passion, Easter. The nativity narratives seen by a historian -- Matthew's nativity is charming and frightening . but it's a Jewish myth -- Celluloid brutality -- The Passion -- Caiaphas was innocent? -- Iscariot and the dark path to the field of blood -- The resurrection -- Part three, the Dead Sea scrolls. Secrets of the scrolls -- Dead Sea scrolls -- The Qumran community and the Essenes -- Midrash in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament -- Part four, Miscellanea. The notion of the covenant in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Tax-collectors -- Christian origins in a nutshell -- The great Da Vinci Code distraction -- What's sex got to do with it? -- The evolution of religious ideas -- Let's hope Vatican politics do not hinder the Holy Spirit -- Moving on from reproach to rapprochement : the Pope and the President of Israel. |
Responsibility: | Geza Vermes. |
Abstract:
Comments on a variety of contemporary religious themes such as "The Da Vinci Code", Mel Gibson's infamous film "The Passion of the Christ", Benedict XVI's book "Jesus of Nazareth" and the "Gospel of Judas". This book includes short articles which present the findings of some of the major discoveries of 20th century such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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