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“... who had died between the death of Jesus and the postponed but imminent day of judgment. As Geza Vermes remarks, he seems not to have given any thought to the very large numbers of dead between Adam and his own day.Paul summons other arguments and witnesses against the incredulous. The Christ who rose on the third day was seen by Cephas (alias ...”

“... scholars, whose exertions are unrelenting. Before the appearance of this little book by Geza Vermes I’d have advised anybody showing an interest in these matters to consult Raymond Brown’s The Birth of the Messiah, a work of some six hundred pages which, like all Brown’s numerous publications, is a monument to his indefatigable though ...”

“... to his authorities in the field and the liveliness of the quotations he selects from their works. Geza Vermes, author of Jesus the Jew, is his clear favourite. I can see why, if only from the Professor’s description of the formal debate between Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus and his colleagues, in the first century: ‘Having exhausted his arsenal of ...”

“... would have learned much the same and more from the many masterly works on Jesus and Judaism by Geza Vermes, or from Martin Goodman’s thrillingly epic overview of the same period, Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilisations. Aslan writes clearly and sensibly, though he is overfond of snappy two-word punchlines as narrative punctuation, and ...”

“... might well have drawn? A strong case to the contrary has been made by the Oxford Scrolls scholar Geza Vermes in a quietly devastating review of the Eisenman/Wise volume in the TLS. Before proceeding to my own difficulties with The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, let me summarise Vermes’s telling objections. Eisenman and ...”