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      Searching for the Real Jesus

      Searching for the Real Jesus

      Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Religious Themes

      Geza Vermes

      © Geza Vermes 2009

      Published in 2009 by SCM Press

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      Contents

       Preface

       Part One Jesus

      1  The Age of Jesus

      2  Jesus the Jew

      3  The Changing Faces of Jesus in the New Testament and Since

      4  Jesus God in Spite of Himself An Interview with the Parisian Magazine Le Point

      5  When you Strip Away All the Pious Fiction, What is Left of the Real Jesus?

      6  Jesus was a Great Man

      7  Benedict XVI and Jesus of Nazareth: A Review

      8  The Truth about the Historical Jesus

      9  Was Jesus Really Human?

      10  A Television Documentary on Christ and the British Press: Channel 4’s Jesus: the Evidence (April 1984)

       Part Two Christmas – Passion – Easter

      1  The Nativity Narratives Seen by a Historian

      2  Matthew’s Nativity is Charming and Frightening . . . but it’s a Jewish Myth

      3  Celluloid Brutality

      4  The Passion

      5  Caiaphas was Innocent?

      6  Iscariot and the Dark Path to the Field of Blood

      7  The Resurrection

       Part Three The Dead Sea Scrolls

      1  Secrets of the Scrolls

      2  Dead Sea Scrolls

      3  The Qumran Community and the Essenes

      4  Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament

       Part Four Miscellanea

      1  The Notion of the Covenant in the Dead Sea Scrolls

      2  Tax-Collectors

      3  Christian Origins in a Nutshell

      4  The Great Da Vinci Code Distraction

      5  What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

      6  The Evolution of Religious Ideas

      7  Let’s Hope Vatican Politics Do Not Hinder the Holy Spirit

      8  Moving on from Reproach to Rapprochement The Pope and the President of Israel

       Acknowledgement of Sources СКАЧАТЬ