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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Christ myth theory (redirect from Jesus myth)
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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Gospel (section Genre and historical reliability)
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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Historicity of the Bible (redirect from Historical reliability of the Bible)
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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Géza Vermes (section Historical Jesus)
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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