Bücher von Geza Vermes

Wie konnte aus dem Prediger und Wunderheiler Jesus von Nazareth, der den nahen Anbruch der Gottesherrschaft verkündigte und am Kreuz das Scheitern seiner Mission erfuhr, 300 Jahre später die präexistente zweite Person der Trinität werden? Der renommierte Religionswissenschaftler Geza Vermes zeichnet dicht an den Quellen entlang die wichtigsten Stationen auf diesem Weg: Nach einer Einleitung über das charismatische Judentum in alttestamentlicher Zeit und einer ausführlichen Darstellung des historischen Nazareners kommen die wichtigsten neutestamentlichen Autoren und die bedeutendsten Schriften und Theologen bis Origenes zu Wort. Den Abschluss bildet eine Skizze des Konzils von Nizäa (325 n. Chr.) mit der Verabschiedung des Nizänischen Glaubensbekenntnisses, das Jesus zum Gott erhob und noch heute katholische, orthodoxe und evangelische Christen verbindet. Für Vermes - Sohn jüdischer, zum Katholizismus konvertierter Eltern, selbst etliche Jahre Priester, bevor er die katholische Kirche verließ und sich zu seinen jüdischen Wurzeln bekannte - ist diese Entwicklung des Jesusbildes letztlich die Geschichte einer gescheiterten Akkulturation, in der durch die Verdrängung des jüdischen Elements und unter dem Einfluss griechischen Denkens im Christentum der historische Jesus fast bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verzeichnet wurde.

Now that all the Dead Sea Scrolls have been published, here is a complete, comprehensive and reliable guide to their significance from the scholar who has been associated with the study of the Scrolls from the very beginning.

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 contextualized within the intellectual and cultural cross-currents of his day.

Final volume of the Vermes trilogy (which includes Jesus the Jew and Jesus and the World of Judaism). A reading of the synoptic gospels primarily addressed to those interested in ancient religions, culture and Judaism.

A text which acts as a useful introduction for undergraduate students studying historical Jesus modules. New material covered by the book includes: the Jesus Notice of Josephus re-examined; a summary of the law by Flavius Josephus; and the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 years on.

Geza Vermes is known world-wide as an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and for his pioneering work, Jesus the Jew. But in addition to that he is the living embodiment of Jewish-Christian relations in the context of an honest quest for the truth. Few scholars have had such a colorful and eventful life, the course of which he describes here.Born into a Hungarian Jewish family which later converted to Christianity, he received a Catholic education and was later ordained priest after the turmoil of the War. The quest for membership in a religious order led him to the Sion Fathers, in Louvain and then in Paris, where among other things he was introduced to biblical studies and became fascinated with the newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls. Subsequent emotional turmoil from conflicting pressures made him ill , but a series of "Providential Accidents" which gave this book its title brought him to England, marriage, and a new fulfilled life, first in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and then in Oxford, and to a public reassertian of his Jewishness.As well as telling a fascinating personal story, this book provides a vivid insider's account of developments in Scrolls research and of the lengthy battle with procrastinating editors over the "academic scandal of the century." These memoirs shed much light on the deep personal friendships and antagonisms and the complex, non-scholarly factors which accompany even committed study of the Bible, Qumran, and the Gospels.

In this collection of occasional pieces, Geza Vermes explores the world and the context in which Jesus of Nazareth lived and tells the story of the exploration of first-century Palestine by twentieth-century scholars.