The Nativity: History and Legend

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Penguin Adult, Nov 2, 2006 - Fiction - 176 pages
In a similar format to the astonishingly successful The Passion Professor Geza Vermes now turns his attention to the other key festival in the Christian calendar - Christmas. Vermes articulately and controversially disentangles the Christmas story as we know it, relating it to prophecies in the Old Testament and also to later Christian folklore, putting the nativity into its true historical context. This will be required reading for anyone wanting to know the true story behind the Nativity.

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About the author (2006)

Geza Vermes was a religious scholar who became one of the "essential translators and a vocal advocate for their broad dissemination" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to the New York Times. Until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, but continued to teach at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He was born on June 22, 1924, in Hungary and died on May 8, 2013, after a recurrence of cancer. He was 88.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Nativity: History and Legend
First library of knowledge
AuthorGeza Vermes
Editionillustrated
PublisherPenguin Adult, 2006
ISBN0141024461, 9780141024462
Length176 pages
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Fiction / General
Religion / Christian Theology / Christology
Religion / General
Religion / Holidays / Christmas & Advent
  
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