Géza Vermès (M / Hungary, Britain, 1924-2013), scholar

Géza Vermès (1924-2013) was an Hungarian-born Jewish-British scholar, emeritus at the University of Oxford, England, UK.

Biography

Born in Mako, Hungary. His Jewish parents were victims of the Holocaust. Vermes joined the Catholic priesthood after WW2, and remained a Catholic priest until 1957. He received his doctorate in 1953 from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, writing his dissertation on the DSS. Vermes was one of the first generation of scholars to analyze the DSS. Vermes published the first English edition of the scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, in 1962. After teaching several years at the University of Newcastle (1957-65), in 1965 Vermes began teaching at Oxford in the Oriental Institute, and remained at Oxford until his retirement from full-time teaching in 1991. In 1973 Vermes, along with Fergus Millar and Martin Goodman, published a revised edition of Emil Schurer’s The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ. Vermes continues as editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies, a position he first assumed in 1971, and is still a faculty member of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit at Oxford. He is also Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford. Since 1991 Vermes has been the director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Vermes has spent much of his academic career publishing books on Jesus. He has written Jesus the Jew (1973), Jesus and the World of Judaism (1983), The Religion of Jesus the Jew (1993), and The Changing Faces of Jesus (2000), and The Authentic Gospel of Jesus (2003). Due in 2010 is a history of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Discovery in the Judean Desert (1956 Vermès), book

• Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic Studies (1961 Vermès), book

• The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (1962 Vermès), book
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2nd ed. (1975 Vermès), book
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 3rd ed. (1987 Vermès), book
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 4th ed. (1995 Vermès), book

• The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-87 Schürer, Vermès), book

• Jesus the Jew (1973 Vermès), book
  • A zsidó Jézus (1995 Vermès), book (Hungarian ed.)

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective (1977 Vermès), book
  • A qumráni közösség és a holt-tengeri tekercsek története (1998 Vermès), book (Hungarian ed.)

• Jesus and the World of Judaism (1983 Vermès), book
  • Jézus és a judaizmus világa (1997 Vermès), book (Hungarian ed.)

• The Essenes According to the Classical Sources (1989 Vermès), book

• The Religion of Jesus the Jew (1993 Vermès), book
  • A zsidó Jézus vallása (1999 Vermès), book (Hungarian ed.)

• The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (1997 Vermès), book
  • The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2nd ed. (2004 Vermès), book

• The Changing Faces of Jesus (2001 Vermès), book
  • Jézus változó arcai (2001 Vermès), book (Hungarian ed.)

• Jesus in His Jewish Context (2003 Vermès), book

• Scrolls, Scriptures, and Early Christianity (2005 Vermès), book

• Tradition and Interpretation in Early Judaism (2005 Vermès), book

• Who’s Who in the Age of Jesus (2005 Vermès), book

• The Story of the Scrolls (2010 Vermès), book
  • 解き明かされた死海文書 = The Story of the Scrolls (2011 Vermès / Moriya), book (japanese ed.)

• Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 (2012 Vermès), book

References

• Leslie Houlden, in Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture (2003 Houlten), edited volume

External links

• Wikipedia