Wednesday, November 10, 2010

New Jesus book from Geza Vermes

GEZA VERMES has just published a new Jesus book, a collection of his essays:
Jesus in the Jewish World (SCM, 2011)
Despite the listed date, I have confirmation from the author that it has just been released and that there will be a launch at Foyles in London on 18 November at 6:30. Table of contents:
JESUS IN THE JEWISH WORLD
1. Jesus the Jew: Christian and Jewish Reactions [From Jews and Christians in a Pluralistic World, edited by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde & Edward Shils, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1991, pp. 25-42]
2. Jesus the Jew and his Religion [unpublished]
3. Jesus of Nazareth in a Nutshell [unpublished]
4. Flavius Josephus, the Fifth Evangelist? [“Jesus in the Eyes of Josephus”, Standpoint, January-February 2010, pp. 54-57]
5. A Dream [From The Changing Faces of Jesus, Penguin, London, 2001, pp. 269-270]
6. Bible and Midrash - Early Old Testament Exegesis [From Geza Vermes, Post-Biblical Jewish Studies, Brill, Leiden, 1975, pp. 59-91]
7. Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Written and Oral Torah [From The Written Word: Literacy in Transition (Wolfson College Lectures 1985), edited by Gerd Baumann, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, pp. 79-95]
8. Methodology in the Study of Jewish Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period [From Journal of Jewish Studies 36, 1985, pp. 145-158]
9. How the New Schürer came into being? [From Jüdische Geschichte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, edited by Aharon Oppenheimer, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1999, pp. 1-8]
10. Hanina ben Dosa: A Galilean Contemporary of Jesus [From Geza Vermes, Post-Biblical Jewish Studies, Brill, Leiden, 1975, pp. 178-214]
11. The Binding of Isaac: Genesis 22 in Rabbinic Literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament [“Isaac the First Lamb of God”, Standpoint, October 2009, pp. 62-65]
12. The Battle over the Scrolls: A Personal Account [From Geza Vermes, Providential Accidents: An Autobiography, SCM Press, London, 1998, pp. 188-207]
13. The Significance of the Scrolls for Understanding Christianity [From Journal of Religious History, 26, 2002, pp. 210-219]
14. Methodology in the Study of the Historical Jesus [To appear in a different form in the Princeton-Prague Symposium on Perspectives on the Historical Jesus]
15. The Son of Man Debate Revisited (1960-2010) [To appear in Journal of Jewish Studies 61, no. 2, 2010]
UPDATE: Professor Vermes e-mails to clarify regarding the date: The British publication date was 29 October. January 2011 is the US date given by Amazon.com.