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 ...

LONDON -- 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 Oxford ...

Geza Vermes, who has died aged 88, was one of the world's leading authorities on the origins of Christianity. In the early 1950s he completed the first-ever doctorate on the Dead Sea Scrolls – a risky ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Geza Vermes, retirement seems to have concentrated the mind. Since giving up the day job as professor of Jewish studies at Oxford University in 1991, he has been writing books at a faster rate ...

Voltaire remarked that all Christology is somehow autobiographical. Geza Vermes, born into a Hungarian Jewish family converted to Christianity, political refugee, Catholic priest who later returned to ...

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 ...

Vermes led a long and sometimes bitter battle with the Israeli archaeological authorities to secure publication of all the manuscripts and fragments, copies of which were eventually lodged in the ...

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 ...