The Beginning of Historical Research on Jesus in the Modern

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Weirdly enough, Mauro doesn't so much as acknowledge that Dungan covered much of the same ground 14 years ago!

Nothing weird about it. His sources are mainly Italian and French. He may not even have considered Dungan's book, as its title which talks of the synoptic problem doesn't reflect his interest.

[DCHindley]

Weirdly enough, Mauro doesn't so much as acknowledge that Dungan covered much of the same ground 14 years ago!

Nothing weird about it. His sources are mainly Italian and French. He may not even have considered Dungan's book, as its title which talks of the synoptic problem doesn't reflect his interest.

Yet they cover almost exactly the same ground. Mauro Pesce is concerned with "Lives of Christ/Jesus" whereas David Dungan is concerned with what the lives of Christ/Jesus are derived from, associating them with their use of either the older Gospel harmonies to the newer synoptic analysis. The authors they discuss overlap to a very large degree, although their opinions about the significance of these authors differ. Pesce never gets around to saying exactly what disturbs him about "modern" lives of Christ/Jesus, but complains about plenty of things these authors did in the process of creating them. Dungan knows exactly what he doesn't like, and what he does is apply some traditional Christian piety into the process of using new and very powerful tools which are by nature analytical (they break things apart).

DCH