I do not wish to make a comment on Marcus Walker’s piece, save to note that readers of TA who have had the pleasure of reading the late Geza Vermes’ ‘Jesus the Jew’ (1973) and its various offshoots, and who will be far better informed than I am about this subject, may also wish to read the British Academy obituary notice of Vermes by Philip Alexander and Martin Goodman, which was published earlier this week: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2592/19-Memoirs-09-Vermes.pdf
Archdeacon: I would recommend the British Academy obit notices as a source: they used to form part of the ‘Proceedings of the British Academy’, but have since been published as separate volumes. All of the volumes from 1965 to 2000 and then after 2012 are available online, and they include the biographies of a number of theologians and ecclesiastical historians: http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/volumes/index.html and https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/. The volumes from 1905 (when the Academy was founded) and 1965 are only available in major libraries, whilst those for 2000-12 are accessible only via Oxford Scholarship Online, which is a subscription service: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-scholarship-online-9780199272334?cc=gb&lang=en&. Some of… Read more »
I do not wish to make a comment on Marcus Walker’s piece, save to note that readers of TA who have had the pleasure of reading the late Geza Vermes’ ‘Jesus the Jew’ (1973) and its various offshoots, and who will be far better informed than I am about this subject, may also wish to read the British Academy obituary notice of Vermes by Philip Alexander and Martin Goodman, which was published earlier this week: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2592/19-Memoirs-09-Vermes.pdf
Archdeacon: I would recommend the British Academy obit notices as a source: they used to form part of the ‘Proceedings of the British Academy’, but have since been published as separate volumes. All of the volumes from 1965 to 2000 and then after 2012 are available online, and they include the biographies of a number of theologians and ecclesiastical historians: http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/volumes/index.html and https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/. The volumes from 1905 (when the Academy was founded) and 1965 are only available in major libraries, whilst those for 2000-12 are accessible only via Oxford Scholarship Online, which is a subscription service: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-scholarship-online-9780199272334?cc=gb&lang=en&. Some of… Read more »