LONDON (AP) — Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. He died on Wednesday, David Ariel, president of the ...

The renowned Hungarian Jewish biblical scholar Geza Vermes, who died of cancer May 8 at age 88, disproved the old canard “You can’t go home again,” at least when it comes to Judaism. Born in the town ...

Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched ...

HIS life, he said, had been a series of “providential accidents”. The biggest of these was escaping the Holocaust. The Vermes family, assimilated Hungarian Jews, had become Roman Catholics: initially ...

Geza Vermes re-wrote the biography of Jesus to transform the blond-haired, blue-eyed saviour into a misunderstood Jewish holy man.(Photodisc) Geza Vermes, who died in Oxford on May 8th, at age 88, was ...

Geza Vermes, who died on 8 May at the age of 88, was a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls acclaimed for his books exploring the Jewish background of Christ. The scrolls were a cache of documents ...

The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Geza Vermes. Penguin; 260 pages; £9.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk WITHIN a century or so of ...

LONDON – Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. Vermes died on Tuesday, David Ariel, president of the Oxford ...

LONDON (AP) — Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. Bongino says FBI is dealing with ‘8647’ copycats as he ...

Geza Vermes, who has died at the age of 88, was an outstanding scholar whose vast knowledge of the history of Judaism at the time of Christ, and the Jewish background of early Christianity, had an ...