Tessa Rajak

The Many Faces of Herod the Great

History & Biography

“This substantial and exceptionally well-documented study of Herod the Great will be for a good long time the basic resource for English readers on the grim but brilliantly successful monarch who was one of the shapers of world history. There is no doubt that it is a needed book. .—.—. Adam Kolman Marshak shuttles with the ease and assurance of an expert Roman historian between ground level and the bigger picture, carrying the reader with him all the way.”

The Religion of Jesus the Jew

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Geza Vermes gives us a Jesus who is ready to claim his place in the line of great Jewish people of God, irrespective of what later became his teaching. The low-key, meticulous fair-minded investigations [of Vermes] have a way of shaking things up, so that they never look the same again. The book which crowns his labors in the field has compelling power by virtue of its double technique: an enormously clever, case-by-case analysis flows into a majestic and impassioned argument.... The readings in this book are more open-minded and more observant than any that have gone before [and] have a new depth, because a rich seam of first-century Jewish thought is minded with masterly skill.”