Professor Geza Vermes - Obituary
Today's Telegraph has its obituary of Geza Vermes (HT: Jim Davila and David Meadows):
Professor Geza Vermes
It's a well-written piece, though it has an error -- The Religion of Jesus the Jew was published in 1993, not 1996.
There is also an AP story (HT: Jim West) that has been widely disseminated, e.g. in The Guardian. There are one or two oddities in the piece, e.g. the note that Vermes wrote several books on the historical Jesus, "The first, 'Jesus the Jew,' was published in 1973, followed by 'The Authentic Gospel of Jesus' (2003)". This leaps thirty years, over Jesus and the World of Judaism and The Religion of Jesus the Jew, both of which are mentioned later in the article.
Among the bloggers, in addition to those mentioned the other day, James McGrath, T & T Clark, James Tabor and others have tributes.
Two more items I had not previously spotted: John McCarthy interviews Geza Vermes in this radio programme from BBC World Service (26 minutes):
Heart and Soul: Geza Vermes
And the Standpoint magazine has a tribute here:
Professor Geza Vermes, 1924-2013
Daniel Johnson
The article links to a remarkable cache of online articles by Geza Vermes written over the last five years:
Standpoint Articles by Geza Vermes
They include pieces on Crucifixion, Writing and Rewriting the Bible, Hagiography, Jews, Christians and Judeo-Christians, Herod the Great, Josephus on Jesus, Isaac, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus.
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