The Nativity : history & legend

by Géza Vermès

Paper Book, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

BT315.3.V47 2006

Tags

Christmas

Genres

Publication

New York : Doubleday, c2006.

Description

In a similar format to the astonishingly successful The PassionProfessor Geza Vermes now turns his attention to the other key festival in the Christian calendar - Christmas. Vermes articulately and controversially disentangles the Christmas story as we know it, relating it to prophecies in the Old Testament and also to later Christian folklore, putting the nativity into its true historical context. This will be required reading for anyone wanting to know the true story behind the Nativity.

Subjects

Christmas

LCC

BT315.3.V47 2006

Physical description

xv, 172 p.; 22 cm

ISBN

9780385522410

Barcode

31342000023043

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