Geza Vermes was born in Hungary in 1924. He studied in Budapest and Louvain. He was the first Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford. His other books published by Penguin are The Changing Faces of Jesus and The Authentic Gospel of Jesus.
No translation of the Scrolls is either more readable or more
authoritative than that of Vermes -- John J. Collins * The Times
Higher Education Supplement *
Fascinating, not least because of Geza Vermes' wonderful
introduction and translation -- Justin Cartwright * Daily
Telegraph, Books of the Year *
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