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Re: New article on the Quest of the historical Jesus
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 3:02 am
by GakuseiDon
Thanks for the reference, Andrew, it looks interesting.
Re: New article on the Quest of the historical Jesus
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:08 am
by Peter Kirby
andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 6:22 am
GakuseiDon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:15 pm
Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 7:50 pmobviously 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.