Christian beginnings
Subtitle: from Nazareth to Nicaea, (AD 30-325)
By: Geza Vermes
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781846141508
Subjects: Church history; Christianity
Description: The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 245-256) and index.