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A 7 page research paper that analyzes Geza Vermes' The Changing Face of Jesus. The writer discuses Vermes' principal point and conclusions regarding scripture and the historical Jesus. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and Roman periods. He is considered to be unparalleled as a translator and scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As these exemplary qualifications suggest, Vermes is arguably the worlds most
preeminent historian on ancient Jewish biblical interpretation (Fredriksen, 2001). Consequently, when Vermes speaks about ancient Jewish culture and the historical Jesus, people listen. However, while what Vermes
has to say about the historical Jesus deserves attention, many Christians will find confusing; some will consider him to be heretical. This is because the historical facts that Vermes
presents are antithetical to closely-held beliefs of Christians who adhere to the traditional view of Christian dogma, i.e. that the virgin birth is a real event and that Jesus
is literally divine. Nevertheless, if the most fundamentalist Christian has to admit that Vermes scholarship and research are impeccable and his argument is quite persuasive. In this text, Vermes consolidates
the arguments and conclusions that appeared in his books prior to Changing Faces of Jesus (Fredriksen, 2001). However, this text differs from the others in that it is clearly
intended to appeal to the general reader, rather then the academia, as no "academic apparatus or learned in-fighting with other scholars clutters these wonder pages" (Fredriksen, 2001, p. 48). Vermess
"great contribution" to the quest for the historical Jesus, according to Fredriksen, 2002, has been to formulate an "interpretative framework" within which to "place and sort through the later Christian
traditions" that accrued around Jesus (p. 48). Vermes begins his analysis with the sources that he believes are the least historically accurate. Scholarship has shown that the "so-called
Gospel of John" reflects the highly evolved theology of a "Christian writer who lived three generations after Jesus and who completed his Gospel in the opening years of the
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