![]() ![]() Important works on this topic include (1973), which describes Jesus as a thoroughly Jewish Galilean charismatic, The Gospel of Jesus the Jew (1981), which examines Jewish parallels to Jesus' teaching and (2012), which traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from Jewish charismatic in the to equality with God in the (325 AD). This historical Jesus, however, is so different from the Christ of faith that Christians, says Vermes, may well want to rethink the fundamentals of their faith. He suggests that, properly understood, the historical Jesus is a figure that Jews should find familiar and attractive. For example, he attributes positive references to Samaritans in the gospels not to Jesus himself but to early Christian editing. ![]() ![]() Contrary to certain other scholars (such as ), Vermes concludes that Jesus did not reach out to non-Jews. Vermes described Jesus as a 1st-century Jewish holy man, a commonplace view in academia but novel to the public when Vermes began publishing. ![]()
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