Author

Publication

2013 - Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

67,750 words, Guess

Page Count

271 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCBR165 .V47 2013

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.

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Other Editions

  • Christian beginnings: from Nazareth to NicaeaYale University Press2013-01-01

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