The Real Jesus: Then and Now

The short essays in The Real Jesus, many of which first appeared in The Times of London and other newspapers, open to the general reader the findings of some of the major discoveries of the twentieth century, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, as they shed light on contemporary religious and biblical questions. Both brilliant and judicious, Vermes proves a capable and entertaining guide to some of the deepest religious impulses of our time. Book jacket.

Geza Vermes is Emeritus Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has been an international leader in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research for more than forty years. Among his Fortress Press volumes are Jesus in His Jewish Context (2003) and An Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls (1999).

Preface	p. ix
Jesus
The Age of Jesus	p. 3
Jesus the Jew	p. 19
The Changing Faces of Jesus in the New Testament and Since	p. 25
Jesus God in Spite of Himself: An Interview with the Parisian Magazine Le Point	p. 35
When You Strip Away All the Pious Fiction, What Is Left of the Real Jesus?	p. 40
Jesus Was a Great Man	p. 44
Benedict XVI and Jesus of Nazareth: A Review	p. 47
The Truth about the Historical Jesus	p. 51
Was Jesus Really Human?	p. 60
A Television Documentary on Christ and the British Press: Channel 4's Jesus: the Evidence (April 1984)	p. 63
Christmas - Passion - Easter
The Nativity Narratives Seen by a Historian	p. 73
Matthew's Nativity Is Charming and Frightening à But It's a Jewish Myth	p. 84
Celluloid Brutality	p. 88
The Passion	p. 92
Caiaphas Was Innocent?	p. 99
Iscariot and the Dark Path to the Field of Blood	p. 103
The Resurrection	p. 107
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Secrets of the Scrolls	p. 113
Exploring the Scrolls	p. 117
The Qumran Community and the Essenes	p. 129
Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament	p. 138
Miscellanea
The Notion of the Covenant in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 149
Tax-Collectors	p. 156
Christian Origins in a Nutshell	p. 161
The Great Da Vinci Code Distraction	p. 165
What's Sex Got to Do with It?	p. 171
The Evolution of Religious Ideas	p. 173
Let's Hope Vatican Politics Do Not Hinder the Holy Spirit	p. 176
Moving on from Reproach to Rapprochement: The Pope and the President of Israel	p. 180
Acknowledgment of Sources	p. 184
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