Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Geza Vermes

Born: June 22, 1924
Died: May 8, 2013 (aged 88)
Bio: Géza Vermes was a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian.
Known for:
- Jesus the Jew (1973)
- The authentic gospel of Jesus (2003)
- Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (1997)
- Christian Beginnings (2012)
- The changing faces of Jesus (2000)