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• Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88

  
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  Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. Vermes died on Tuesday, David Ariel, president of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, said Saturday. Vermes had an early interest in the Dead Sea ...
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• Geza Vermes 1924–2013

  
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  Over on his blog, Jim Davila shares the sad news of the passing of Geza Vermes. SAD NEWS: I have just received word from Oxford that Professor Emeritus Geza Vermes died this morning after the recurrence of an illness. I had been corresponding with him recently and knew that he was unwell because he had to miss my ...
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• Mysterious Hebrew stone depicts archangel Gabriel, called a Dead Sea Scroll in stone

  
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  JERUSALEM –   An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means. The so-called Gabriel Stone, a meter (three-foot)-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ...
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• A New Look

  
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  I checked out the transformation; some dressed like pirates!!  like the ladies at The Parkham Womens Institute with Captain Colin Darch ta l king about Somali piracy... some had a makeover; they have a new look!  I checked out the transportation; some were rolling !! but due to the hostile takeover?  ...
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• Is the author and spiritual seeker Paulo Coelho Jewish?

  
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  No Paulo Coelho is not a Jew. He was brought up Catholic and attended a Jesuit school in Brazil. Coelho is not a big fan of any organized religion. He speaks with lyrical disdain and disparagement in his books about the wisdom and ritual of religions. His current publication, Manuscript Found in Accra , is set in ...
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• Qumran caves

  
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  Qumran is an area on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea . In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd in a cave of this region. The Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to have belonged to the monastic community of Essenes at Khirbet Qumran. These scrolls have helped scholars [...]
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