THE PASSION BY GEZA VERMES is reviewed by Karen Armstrong in the London Times:

The Passion by Geza Vermes
reviewed by KAREN ARMSTRONG
Not the Gospel truth
THE PASSION
By Geza Vermes
Penguin, �6.99; 130pp
ISBN 0 141 02132 2
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The patient, scholarly work of Geza Vermes has performed an invaluable service by placing the career of Jesus in its original Jewish setting. Now he has turned his attention to the Gospel accounts of Jesus�s Crucifixion. Christians believe that Jesus, God incarnate, died on the Cross to save them from the sin of Adam in an act of supreme love. Yet the story has inspired shameful atrocities, because the Gospels place the blame squarely on the Jewish people. After the reading of the Passion on Good Friday, crowds of worshippers regularly stormed into the Jewish districts, looting and killing, to take revenge.

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Naturally, Mel Gibson's movie also figures in the discussion.

(Via Bible and Interpretation News.)