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Keyser, Cassius Jackson (1947). Mathematics as a Culture Clue, and Other Essays. New York: Scripta Mathematica. Schweitzer, Albert (2000) [1913]. John Bowden (ed.). The Quest of the Historical Jesus (first complete ed.). London: SCM. ISBN 0-334-02791-8. Van Voorst, Robert E. (2000). Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the ...
American New Testament scholar and former Baptist pastor Robert M. Price (born 1954) has questioned the historicity of Jesus in a series of books, including Deconstructing Jesus (2000), The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man (2003), Jesus Is Dead (2007) and The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems (2011).
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The authors of the New Testament generally showed little interest in an absolute chronology of Jesus or in synchronizing the episodes of his life with the secular history of the age. [188] The gospels were primarily written as theological documents in the context of early Christianity with the chronological timelines as a secondary ...
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Price acknowledges that outside the New Testament there are a small number of ancient sources (Tacitus, for example) who would testify that Jesus was a person who really lived. However, Price points out that, even assuming the authenticity of these references, they relate more to the claims of the Christians who lived at that time on Jesus, and ...
The crucifixion of Jesus is an example of an event that meets the criterion of embarrassment. This method of execution was considered the most shameful and degrading in the Roman world, and advocates of the criterion claim this method of execution is therefore the least likely to have been invented by the followers of Jesus. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The lines of evidence used to establish Jesus' historical existence include the New Testament documents, theoretical source documents that may lie behind the New Testament, statements from the early Church Fathers, brief references in histories produced decades or centuries later by pagan and Jewish sources, gnostic documents, and early ...