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Article: Jesus Christ, in his own words What Jesus actually said lies hidden in the gospels, Damian Thompson praises this attempt at finding it
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- December 21, 2003
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The Authentic Gospel of Jesus Christ
by Geza Vermes
Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, pounds 20, 446 pp
pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
SOMETHING is missing from the author's details on the dust jacket
of Geza Vermes's latest book about Jesus. We learn that he studied in
Budapest and Louvain, was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the
Dead Sea Scrolls, and was eventually appointed Oxford's first
Professor of Jewish Studies. So he's Jewish, obviously. But let's
read between the lines. Why would a young Jewish scholar study at the
Catholic University of Louvain?
The extraordinary answer is that Vermes was fostered by Catholics
after his family died in the Holocaust; he was received ...