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Sources for the historicity of Jesus


Theology: New Testament and Related Literature: Jesus - Historicity

Comprehensively detailing the sources for our knowledge of Jesus, Theissen and Merz fully explore the historical and social context of Jesus and ...

Historians and the historicity of Jesus - ABC Religion & Ethics

But only a small number of non-Christian texts from the first century even mention Jesus. The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus ...

How Would We Know Jesus Existed? - Richard Carrier Blogs

... Jesus at all, and Pliny the Younger never mentioned him being a historical person), and counting hypothetical sources as actual. That it is ...

WHAT ARE THE HISTORICAL SOURCES FOR JESUS? - YouTube

... Jesus? Before we can begin to know anything about the historical Jesus, it is helpful to clarify the different types of historical sources ...

Why the Historicity of Jesus Matters - Christianity.com

Ehrman may not be a Christian, but he knows Jesus was a real historical character. The historicity of Jesus has been established by credible ...

Comparing the sources for Alexander and Jesus - Vridar

Jesus is who he is because of the miracles, especially his inability to stay dead more than three days. The history of Alexander is about his ...

Debunking the Historical Jesus By Dan Barker (March 2006)

The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God? · Did Jesus Exist? · The Jesus Puzzle: Challenging the existence of an historical Jesus ...

Sources for a Life of Jesus

Still, all of these sources tell us precious little about the historical Jesus. All we learn from them is that he was a Jewish teacher of wisdom with a ...

The Historicity of the New Testament - bethinking.org

Prima facie it would seem that a strong case could be made for the fact that much of the New Testament, including the Gospels and the sources behind them, was ...

The Historical Jesus: What Can We Really Learn? - Inquiries Journal

Yet not all Christian sources are equal. There is gulf between the gospels and the non-canonical texts, the former being more insightful. The Letters of St Paul ...

The Historical Jesus | Modern Reformation

The Jesus of David Strauss, George Eliot, Ernest Renan, and Thomas Jefferson was the object of the so-called First Quest for the Historical Jesus. The church ...

Reza Aslan and "the Jesus of History" - Timothy Paul Jones

Is there a lack of information about the historical Jesus in the earliest Christian sources? ... “The first written testimony we have about Jesus ...

A Silence that screams: No Contemporary Historical Accounts for ...

God himself is often identified as the source of Christian ethics. No one speaks of miracles performed by Jesus, his apocalyptic predictions, his views on any ...

The Historical Record of Jesus Life from Secular Sources

COPYRIGHT WARNING No credible Biblical scholar today believes that Jesus was not a real person of history. The evidence for His existence is ...

The Search for the Historical Jesus

How did Jesus' existence come to be questioned? The answer lies in the changing trends of modern Bible scholarship. The “quest for the historical Jesus” ...

Is the Historical Jesus Fact or Fiction? - Cross Examined

The ancient sources[2] will be arranged in two ways: (1) Sources that specifically use the name “Jesus” or “Christ;” and (2) Sources that ...

Book Review: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of ...

Gary Habermas. The first book of his that I read was the one I present to you today: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ. Reading ...

Do Other Nonbiblical Sources Confirm Jesus Christ's Existence?

Many people assume that, apart from the Bible, history is silent concerning Jesus of Nazareth. ... A old scroll. ... Josephus twice mentions Jesus ...

Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus? The ...

There are only two sources of information for past events: either stories that actually happened based on, ultimately, eyewitness accounts or stories that have ...

Reasons to Be Confident about the Historical Jesus - Magis Center

Moreover, the canonical Gospels situate their accounts in the context of real rulers and figures which we know about from other historical ...