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Title: Providential Accidents by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0847693406 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 5
Summary: The Life Experience of a Great Scholar
Comment: Providential Accidents - what a well-chosen title- gives a moving insight into the colorful life of a scholar who is world-famous for his pioneering work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and on the historical Jesus. It reveals also in a very impressive way Vermes's personal development starting from provincial Hungary between the wars to his appointment to the chair of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford and to a Fellowship of the British Academy. A few extracts from the press reviews of the British edition will show the profound impact of this beautifully written book. "Geza Vermes changed accepted views of the life of Christ. Now he has written his own life: the story of a Jew who converted to Catholicism, became a priest, and has now reaffirmed his Jewishness" - The Independent, London. "Vermes believes that Jews and Christians have a lot to learn from looking at Jesus as he was 'thoroughly Jewish'" - The Jerusalem Report. "Providential Accidents is a remarkable story. Vermes' stunning autobiography provides constant evidence of the intuition, wholeness and humility that facilitated the 'providential accidents' which have shaped his life" -The Tablet, London (Roman Catholic) "It reads better than a novel" - Expository Times, Edinburgh.
Rating: 2
Summary: "Providential" means no explanations
Comment: A very embarrassing book because it really tells us nothing wewant to know. What was it like growing up Jewish in wartime Hungary?Just a few inconveniences. Why did he become a priest? Not a word about belief in anything? Why did he leave the Church? Just seemed the best thing to do? How did he become a leading scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of Jesus as a "Jew." Quite by accident. There isn't an answer to any real question here. But there is a lot of self-serving prose and a general attack on two centuries of Christian scholars who have found the capturing of the "historical Jesus" a difficult if not impossible task. For Vermes, it is pretty easy to get to the historical Jesus; all you have to do is to realize he was a first-century Jew!...
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Title: The Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0670894516 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 29 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Religion of Jesus the Jew by Geza Vermes ISBN: 0800627970 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0684868733 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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