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ISBN: | 9780300195316 0300195311 9780300191608 030019160X
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2012. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion.
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Other form: | Print version: Vermès, Géza, 1924-2013. Christian beginnings. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2013 9780300191608
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