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Providential Accidents: An Autobiography

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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 ...more
Paperback , 282 pages
Published November 28th 1998 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (first published March 2nd 1998)
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Jim McGown
I am doing a report on Geza Vermes' work on Jesus the Jew. This book provided me with a lot of valuable background information on his life experiences and motivation for writing about Jesus. If you are interested in his work, you will enjoy this book.
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Géza Vermes was a Jewish Hungarian scholar and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian.
More about Géza Vermès...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30–325 The Changing Faces of Jesus

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