Jesus in His Jewish Context by Geza Vermes
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Overview: This book is not for the faint of heart. It would be a difficult read for a seriously conservative or fundamentalist Christian. However, Vermes’ admiration for Jesus and his fairness in his assessments come through very forcefully and very clearly. He calls for placing the New Testament…and other First Century Christian literature…within the whole complex of Jewish literature and evaluating it together. He seeks out the Aramaic and Hebrew elements of language that lie behind the New Testament Greek. He seeks to understand the impact of the Semitic elements on the Greek. For example he shows quite clearly that the element “Son of Man” does not refer to a celestian individual who operates behind the Christian scene or even to Jesus himself. He shows the history of the expression in other Jewish literature and, importantly, in the Dead Sea literature. In essence the phrase is a circumlocution pointing to the speaker himself…a substitute for the word “I”.
As one reads this book, one comes to see Jesus more clearly and to sense his humanity and his struggles. One sees his objections to certain Jewish elements and certainly to the domination of the Romans. Jesus becomes a struggling human who faces a cruel and untimely death at the hands of conspirators who kill him for their own reasons. What one wishes to do with the resurrection and with the divinity of Jesus is, certainly, up to the individual believer, but after reading this volume one comes away feeling much closer to the Man from Nazareth who had great aspirations for his fellow Jews. It helps one understand that Jesus was indeed a Jew struggling with First Century Jewish concerns.
Genre: Religion > History
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