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'''Géza Vermes''', stylo [[Hungarice|Hungarico]] ''Vermes Géza'' ([{{IPA
== Biography ==
Vermes was born in
All three were baptised as [[Roman Catholic]]s when he was seven. His mother and journalist father died in the [[Holocaust]].
After researching the scrolls in Paris for a few years, he left the Catholic Church in 1957, and reasserting his Jewish identity, came to [[UK|Britain]] and took up a teaching post at the [[Newcastle University|University of Newcastle upon Tyne]]. He married [[Pamela Hobson Curle]], a scholar and poet who was already married<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/europe/geza-vermes-dead-sea-scrolls-scholar-dies-at-88.html?_r=0</ref>.<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/branches.php?ged=auden-bicknell.ged&surn=HOBSON W.H. Auden links in (Noreen) Pamela Hobson's Family Tree]
Nicholas Jenkins "Family ghosts" geneology database, Department of English, Stanford University</ref> in 1958. In 1965 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies at [[Oxford University]], rising to become the first professor of [[Jewish Studies]] before his retirement in 1991. In 1970 he became a member of the [[Liberal Judaism|Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London]],<ref>Géza Vermès, ''[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rH69p6a9bcEC&pg=PA170 Providential Accidents: An autobiography]'',
Vermes died on 8 May 2013 after a recurrence of cancer.<ref>http://paleojudaica.blogspot.ca/2013_05_05_archive.html</ref>
== Academic career ==
Vermes was one of the first scholars to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls after their discovery in 1947, and is the author of the standard translation into [[English language|English]] of the Dead Sea Scrolls:
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, Oxford|Oriental Institute]] in [[Oxford]]. He had edited the ''[[Journal of Jewish Studies]]''<ref name = "JJS">[http://www.jjs-online.net JJS Online].</ref> from 1971 to his death, and from 1991 he had been director of the Oxford Forum for [[Qumran]] Research at the [[Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies]]<ref>[http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/ Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies].</ref> He inspired the creation of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) in 1975 and of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) in 1981 and acted as founding president for both.
== Opera selecta ==
* ''Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic studies''. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1961. ISBN 90-04-03626-1
* ''The Dead Sea Scrolls in English''. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962
** ''The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English''. Londinii: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 978-0-14-044952-5;
* ''Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels''. Minneapoli: Fortress Press, 1973. ISBN 0-8006-1443-7
* ''Post-Biblical Jewish Studies''. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1975. ISBN 90-04-04160-5
* (cum [[Martinus Goodman|Martino Goodman]]) ''The [[Essenes]] According to the Classical Sources''. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989. ISBN 1-85075-139-0
* ''The Religion of Jesus the Jew''. Minneapoli: Fortress Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8006-2797-0
▲* ''The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English''. Londinii: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 978-0-14-044952-5 (2004 ed.) (Fiftieth anniversary ed. 2011 ISBN 978-0-141-19731-9)
* ''Providential Accidents''. Londinii: SCM Press, 1998. ISBN 0-334-02722-5; Lanham Terrae Mariae: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. ISBN 0-8476-9340-6 [De vita sua]
* ''The Changing Faces of Jesus''. Londinii: Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0-14-026524-4
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