• The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally...
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  • The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus historically existed (as opposed to being a purely mythological figure). The question of historicity...
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  • The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the...
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    yielded various views on the historical reliability of the Gospels and how closely they reflect the historical Jesus. Jesus was circumcised at eight days...
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  • The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Though absent...
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  • The Quest of the Historical Jesus (‹See Tfd›German: Von Reimarus zu Wrede: eine Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung, literally "From Reimarus to Wrede:...
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    study the historical Jesus and early Christianity believe that the canonical gospels and the life of Jesus must be viewed within their historical and cultural...
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  • collectively called the Synoptic Gospels, are the primary sources of historical information about Jesus and the religious movement he founded. The fourth gospel,...
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  • Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah nor do they believe he was the Son of God. In the Jewish perspective, it is...
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    Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, is the view that the story of Jesus is a work of mythology with no historical substance...
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    existence of Jesus, the Testimonium Flavianum in Book 18 his crucifixion. Josephus' James passage attests to the existence of Jesus as a historical person and...
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    view the baptism of Jesus as a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned. Along with the crucifixion of Jesus, biblical scholars...
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  • The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between his childhood...
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    references referred to Jesus, not as a historical individual, but instead as the messiah of Christianity. In 1910, Hermann Strack wrote Jesus, die Häretiker und...
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    and a resumption of the missionary activity of Jesus's followers. Scholars of Jesus as a historical figure tend to generally avoid the topic, since many...
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    event is being considered for merging. › The crucifixion of Jesus was the violent death of Jesus by nailing him to a wooden cross. It happened in 1st-century...
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    considered for merging. › The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow...
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  • Jesus, and have but a minor intersection with Christianity. For non-religious perspectives on Jesus, see historical Jesus. Christian views of Jesus are...
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  • its first report in 2022, After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements. The seminars are the...
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  • as historical documents, though according to E. P. Sanders "we have a good idea of [...] his public career.". Critical study on the Historical Jesus has...
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    The question of whether the historical Jesus was in good mental health has been explored by multiple psychologists, philosophers, historians, and writers...
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    that Tacitus's reference to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate is both authentic, and of historical value as an independent Roman source. However...
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  • and whether the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion...
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  • of spurious sources, and are generally historically inaccurate.: 44–45  By the 19th century, theories that Jesus was non-Semitic were being developed,...
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  • Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth is a 2012 book by Bart D. Ehrman, a scholar of the New Testament. In this book, written...
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  • Christianity, concludes that historical evidence says nothing at all about Jesus' sexuality—"certainly nothing to indicate that Jesus and Mary had a sexual relationship...
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    scholar of his time. Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on the Jewishness of the historical Jesus, as seen in the broader context of the narrative...
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  • Jesus (/ˈdʒiːzəs/) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע)...
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  • The Historical Jesus is based on historical evidence. Every time a new scroll is unearthed or new Gospel fragment is found, the Historical Jesus is modified...
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    Jew: Rethinking the historical Jesus. New York: Doubleday. Meier, John P. (2016). A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol. V: Probing the...
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