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Géza Vermes ((:ˈɡeːzɒ ˈvɛrmɛʃ); 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin—one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth—and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He was a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient works in Aramaic such as the Targums, and on the life and religion of Jesus. He was one of the most important voices in contemporary Jesus research,〔Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). Chapter 1. Quest of the historical Jesus. p. 1-16〕 and he has been described as the greatest Jesus scholar of his time.〔; (G. Richard Wheatcroft review of The Authentic Gospel of Jesus ).〕 Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on Jesus the Jew, as seen in the broader context of the narrative scope of Jewish history and theology, while questioning the basis of some Christian teachings on Jesus. == Biography == Vermes was born in Makó, Hungary, in 1924 to parents of Jewish descent, schoolteacher Terézia (Riesz) and liberal journalist Ernő Vermes,〔(Who's who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology – Google Books )〕 (His family, however, had not practised Judaism since the early 19th century.〔) All three were baptised as Roman Catholics when he was seven. His mother and father died in the Holocaust. Vermes attended a Catholic seminary. When he was eligible for college, in 1942, Jews were not accepted into Hungarian universities.〔(Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com )〕 After the Second World War, he became a Roman Catholic priest, but was not admitted into the Jesuit or Dominican orders because of his Jewish ancestry. Vermes was accepted into the Order of the Fathers of Notre-Dame de Sion,〔 a French/Belgian order founded by Jewish converts〔(Geza Vermes: Geza Vermes, a Jew, ex-priest and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on May 8th aged 88 )〕 which prayed for Jews.〔(Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com )〕 He studied first in Budapest and then at the College St Albert and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he read Oriental history and languages. In 1953 obtained a doctorate in theology with the first dissertation written on the Dead Sea Scrolls and its historical framework.〔 After researching the scrolls in Paris for several years,〔 on a visit to Britain he met the scholar and poet Pamela Hobson Curle; though she was married, the two fell in love in 1955. Vermes left the Catholic Church in 1957 and reasserted his Jewish identity; however, he "insisted he had not converted, just "grew out of" Christianity."〔 Relocating to Britain, he and Curle married in 1958. He took up a teaching post at what is now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.〔 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 Jewish Synagogue of London.〔Géza Vermès, ''(Providential Accidents: An autobiography )'', Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, ISBN 0-8476-9340-6, p. 170.〕 After the death of his first wife in 1993, he married Margaret Unarska in 1996 and adopted her son, Ian. Vermes died on 8 May 2013 after a recurrence of cancer.〔(PaleoJudaica.com: 05/05/2013 – 05/12/2013 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Géza Vermes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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