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SUMMARY:Talk by Alex Faludy
DESCRIPTION:Alex is sadly unwell.  This event will be rescheduled to a lat
 er date.\n\n“The Quest for the Historical Vermes”\n\n Géza Vermes FB
 A (1924-2013) was an Anglo-Hungarian scholar and public intellectual of im
 mense distinction. Vermes’s best-selling translation of the Dead Sea Scr
 olls into English made him a household name in the 1960s. His interpretive
  work on their meaning and significance won him appointment as the first e
 ver Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford. Vermes’s Jesus the Jew (1973)
  transformed public discourse around the identity of Christianity’s insp
 irer.\n\nVermes’s life was dramatic - with a narrow escape from the Hung
 arian Holocaust in 1944. After emigration from Hungary\, despite a conside
 rable public presence\, he somehow managed to remain ‘elusive’ in pers
 onality and paradoxical in belief.\n\nThis talk\, a decade after his death
 \, aims to reflect on his importance and to probe some of the puzzles of h
 is character and biography.\n\nAlexander Faludy is an Anglo-Hungarian Free
 lance Journalist based in Budapest.\n\nENTRY FREE\, AT LAB 006\, LORD ASHC
 ROFT BUILDING\, EAST ROAD\, CAMBRIDGE
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CATEGORIES:Talks
LOCATION:Lord Ashcroft Building\, Anglia Ruskin University\, 64 broad stree
 t\, Cambridge\, CB1 1PT\, United Kingdom
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