New article on the Quest of the historical Jesus

[GakuseiDon]

From an earlier generation but interesting there is Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? by Maurice Goguel.

Thanks for the reference, Andrew, it looks interesting.

[Peter Kirby]

obviously a preliminary step is to prove the existence of the "actor" in question by what I consider an independent evidence.

That's true, and from what I've read the Quests all seem to start with the idea that there was a historical Jesus is the most reasonable option. But no-one AFAIK has provided an argument for that. Dr Ehrman's book "Did Jesus Exist?" is the closest we have AFAIK (if anyone has any book suggestions on that topic please recommend them).

From an earlier generation but interesting there is Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? by Maurice Goguel.

Shirley Jackson Case wrote The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity (1912).

And I just learned from Wikipedia that he originally studied math.