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In this, Geza Vermes' best known book, there emerges perhaps the closest portrayal that we have of a genuinely historical Jesus. Freed from the weight and onus of Christian doctrine or Jewish animus, Jesus here appears as a vividly human, yet profoundly misunderstood, figure, thoroughly grounded and contextualised within the extraordinary intellectual and cultural cross currents of his day.

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Now that I have been posting on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus, I would be remiss not to mention that one of the absolutely great scholars of modern times, one of the world experts on both the Scrolls and Jesus, died several days ago. Geza Vermes was a formidable scholar. Of the three major English translations of the Scrolls, it is his that I typically use and prefer.

In the 1970s he began publishing a series of books on Jesus that did more than almost anything to push for the idea that if Jesus is to be understood, he must be understood as a first century Jew. This was something of a novel idea at the time. It has become the standard view that virtually every Jesus scholar on the planet shares.

Vermes was a scholar’s scholar. Professor at Oxford, he was an incredible linguist, intimately familiar with every ancient historical source of relevance, a creative thinker. He wrote books for scholars but also books that were accessible to the educated layperson.

He was at the very top of Dead Sea Scrolls studies and Jesus studies, at one and the same time. He died at the age of 88. There is a fine obituary in the Economist that I can recommend: It shows that, among other things, Vermes had a very interesting life, and not always in a good way. Born into a Jewish home in Hungary in 1924, he and his family (because of his parents) converted to Catholicism and were all baptized when he was still a boy.

The parents had hoped that this conversion would save them from the coming onslaught of the Nazis. It ended up saving Vermes, but not his parents. He was accepted in the Catholic Seminary, and in 1944 he saw his parents for the last time. They died – he never knew how or where – in the holocaust. At the time, the seminary hid him away, so that he survived. He was trained in Catholic circles, but eventually became disenchanted with Christianity and returned to the synagogue. I had known about Vermes and his work since I was a graduate student in the early 1980s.

But I never met him until a couple of years ago. He was in Chapel Hill giving a lecture, and he, his wife, and I all had a very nice and intimate dinner together. He was soft-spoken, sharp, interesting.

He had a sense of humor and a gentle disposition. He was interested in my work, and not just interested in talking about his own. I was far more interested in hearing him talk – he was a legend. It is very sad to see that he has now passed away. The academic community has lost a real scholar with a real story to tell. Toddfrederick May 19, 2013 Bart, You said: “.if Jesus is to be understood, he must be understood as a first century Jew. This was something of a novel idea at the time.” That struck me as being something I did not notice in my life, in my time at the seminary, or in the pastoral work I did.

Could that be because your background was fundamentalist and mine was not? I remember in the early 1960’s, before I decided to attend seminary, that I often thought of myself as more Jewish than what we call evangelical Christian now. I was a member of the United Church of Christ (Congregational) which today is very liberal / progressive. I remember watching a weekly TV discussion by Rabbi Alvin Fine of Temple Emanuel in San Francisco and never found anything he said to be contrary with my beliefs, even when speaking about Jesus. I used to call Jesus “my Rabbi” and I once considered Joining our local Synagogue after attending many sessions and events there. Kissing Dynamite Steel Of Swabia Germany. I often had to remind many people that “Jesus was Jewish, you know.” Perhaps I should never have considered becoming a Christian minister but should have considered a different directionwhich I eventually did (public school teaching). I naively assumed that everyone knew that Jesus was Jewish (influenced by the context of his times) and that his teachings were directed to his people then and applicable to us Gentiles as well.