Jesus in the Jewish world
By: Geza Vermes
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780334043799
Subjects: Bible; Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ; Dead Sea scrolls; Criticism, interpretation; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; Jewish interpretations
Description: Readers of the present volume are offered lively and often humorous accounts of the impact of Jesus the Jew on Christian and Jewish readers; of the value of Josephus as a historical source regarding John the Baptist, James the brother of the Lord, and Jesus; the historical implications of ancient Jewish biblical exegesis; of the inside story of the monumental recasting by Vermes and his friends of Emil Schürer's History of the Jewish people; and of the sacrifice of Isaac and the story of the first-century Galilean rabbi, Hanina ben Dosa. The final two essays, written in 2007 and 2010, are particularly noteworthy, the first propounding a fresh and revolutionary approach to methodology in the study of the historical Jesus and the second restating and reinforcing Vermes's stance in the half-a-century long Son of Man debate.
Notes: Collection of 12 out of 15 essays published elsewhere previously between 1970 and 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jesus the Jew : Christian and Jewish reactions; title: Jesus the Jew and his religion; title: Jesus of Nazareth in a nutshell; title: Flavius Josephus, the fifth evangelist?; title: A dream; title: Bible and midrash : early Old Testament exegesis; title: Scripture and tradition in Judaism : written and oral Torah; title: Methodology in the study of Jewish literature in the Graeco-Roman period; title: How the new Schürer came into being; title: Hanina ben Dosa : a Galilean contemporary of Jesus; title: The binding of Isaac : Genesis 22 in rabbinic literature, the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament; title: The battle over the scrolls : a personal account; title: The significance of the scrolls for understanding Christianity; title: Methodology in the study of the historical Jesus; title: The Son of Man debate revisited (1960-2010).