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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Critical-historical_research"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Critical-historical research</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Critical-historical_research-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Critical-historical research subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Critical-historical_research-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Historical reliability of the Gospels</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Quest for the historical Jesus</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-First_quest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_quest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.1</span> <span>First quest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_quest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_quest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_quest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.2</span> <span>Second quest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_quest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third_quest" class="vector-toc-list-item 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<div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Baptism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Baptism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Crucifixion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Crucifixion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Crucifixion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Crucifixion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Possibly_historical_elements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Possibly_historical_elements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Possibly historical elements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Possibly_historical_elements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Portraits_of_the_historical_Jesus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_hist%C3%B2ric" title="Jesús històric – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Jesús històric" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historick%C3%BD_Je%C5%BE%C3%AD%C5%A1" title="Historický Ježíš – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Historický Ježíš" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_historiske_Jesus" title="Den historiske Jesus – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Den historiske Jesus" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_von_Nazaret" title="Jesus von Nazaret – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Jesus von Nazaret" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_hist%C3%B3rico" title="Jesús histórico – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Jesús histórico" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuo_de_Nazaret" title="Jesuo de Nazaret – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Jesuo de Nazaret" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C_(%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AE%DB%8C)" title="عیسی (شخصیت تاریخی) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="عیسی (شخصیت تاریخی)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9sus_de_Nazareth" title="Jésus de Nazareth – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Jésus de Nazareth" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezus_(histoarysk)" title="Jezus (histoarysk) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Jezus (histoarysk)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%AD%EC%82%AC%EC%A0%81_%EC%98%88%EC%88%98" title="역사적 예수 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="역사적 예수" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povijesni_Isus" title="Povijesni Isus – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Povijesni Isus" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a 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title="Historicity of Jesus">Jesus in history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus" title="Chronology of Jesus">Chronology</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Historical Jesus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">Quest for the historical Jesus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus" title="Historicity of Jesus">Historicity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus" title="Sources for the historicity of Jesus">Sources for the historicity of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">Reliability of the Gospels</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_comparative_mythology" title="Jesus in comparative mythology">Mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">Jesus myth theory</a></li> 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.navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Jesus" title="Template:Jesus"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Jesus" title="Template talk:Jesus"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Jesus" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Jesus"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> The term "<b>historical Jesus</b>" refers to the life and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus" title="Ministry of Jesus">teachings</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> as interpreted through <a href="/wiki/Historical_criticism" title="Historical criticism">critical historical methods</a>, in contrast to what are traditionally <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity" title="Jesus in Christianity">religious interpretations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossley_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also considers the <a href="/wiki/Historical_background_of_the_New_Testament" title="Historical background of the New Testament">historical and cultural contexts</a> in which Jesus lived.<sup id="cite_ref-Levine_1-2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Levine_1-2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Webb_2009_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Webb_2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that <a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus" title="Historicity of Jesus">Jesus was a historical figure</a>, and the idea that <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">Jesus was a mythical figure</a> has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a <a href="/wiki/Fringe_theory" title="Fringe theory">fringe theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Price_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Price-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GrantMajority-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events being supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: <a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">Jesus was baptized</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Jesus was crucified</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JDunn339_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JDunn339-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Crossan145_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossan145-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAPowell168-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are based on the <a href="/wiki/Pauline_epistles" title="Pauline epistles">Pauline epistles</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">gospels</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus" title="Sources for the historicity of Jesus">several non-biblical sources</a> also support his historical existence.<sup id="cite_ref-Van_Voorst_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Voorst-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Camber121_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Camber121-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chil460_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chil460-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the 18th century, three separate scholarly <a href="/wiki/Quests_for_the_historical_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Quests for the historical Jesus">quests for the historical Jesus</a> have taken place, each with distinct characteristics and developing new and different research criteria.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AlanP19_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlanP19-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historical Jesus scholars typically contend that he was a <a href="/wiki/Galilean" title="Galilean">Galilean</a> Jew and living in a time of <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">messianic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apocalypticism" title="Apocalypticism">apocalyptic</a> expectations.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders93_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders93-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scholars credit the apocalyptic declarations of the gospels to him, while others portray his "<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God_(Christianity)" title="Kingdom of God (Christianity)">Kingdom of God</a>" as a <a href="/wiki/Realized_eschatology" title="Realized eschatology">moral one</a>, and not apocalyptic in nature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The portraits of Jesus that have been constructed through history using these processes have often differed from each other, and from the image portrayed in the gospel accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such portraits include that of Jesus as an apocalyptic <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charisma" title="Charisma">charismatic</a> healer, <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynic</a> philosopher, <a href="/wiki/Jewish_messiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish messiah">Jewish messiah</a>, prophet of social change,<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Webb_2009_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Webb_2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PBS_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PBS-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Köstenberger_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Köstenberger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is little scholarly agreement on a single portrait, nor the methods needed to construct it,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter74_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter74-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Levine_1-2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Levine_1-2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there are overlapping attributes among the various portraits, and scholars who differ on some attributes may agree on others.<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_existence">Historical existence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historical existence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus" title="Historicity of Jesus">Historicity of Jesus</a></div> <p>Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed.<sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Price_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Price-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/Michael_Grant_(classicist)" title="Michael Grant (classicist)">Michael Grant</a> asserts that if conventional standards of historical criticism are applied to the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, "we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of <a href="/wiki/Pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan">pagan</a> personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is no indication that writers in antiquity who opposed Christianity questioned the existence of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Rahner730_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rahner730-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-voorst15_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voorst15-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the 1970s, various scholars such as <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Jeremias" title="Joachim Jeremias">Joachim Jeremias</a>, <a href="/wiki/E._P._Sanders" title="E. P. Sanders">E. P. Sanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerd_Theissen" title="Gerd Theissen">Gerd Theissen</a> have traced elements of Christianity to currents in first-century Judaism and have discarded nineteenth-century minority views that Jesus was based on previous pagan deities.<sup id="cite_ref-Mythicists_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mythicists-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mentions of Jesus in extra-biblical texts exist and are supported as genuine by the majority of historians.<sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Differences between the content of the Jewish Messianic prophecies and the life of Jesus undermine the idea that Jesus was invented as a Jewish <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">Midrash</a> or Peshar.<sup id="cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 344–351">: 344–351 </span></sup> The presence of details of Jesus' life in Paul, and the differences between letters and Gospels, are sufficient for most scholars to dismiss mythicist claims concerning Paul.<sup id="cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 208–233">: 208–233 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Theissen says "there is broad scholarly consensus that we can best find access to the historical Jesus through the Synoptic tradition."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman" title="Bart D. Ehrman">Bart D. Ehrman</a> adds: "To dismiss the Gospels from the historical record is neither fair nor scholarly."<sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 73">: 73 </span></sup> One book argues that if Jesus did not exist, "the origin of the faith of the early Christians remains a perplexing mystery."<sup id="cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 233">: 233 </span></sup> Eddy and Boyd say the best history can assert is probability, yet the probability of Jesus having existed is so high, Ehrman says "virtually all historians and scholars have concluded Jesus did exist as a historical figure."<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12, 21">: 12, 21 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/James_Dunn_(theologian)" title="James Dunn (theologian)">James Dunn</a> writes: "Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed".<sup id="cite_ref-Stanton145_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stanton145-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Ehrman wrote: "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees."<sup id="cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 15–22">: 15–22 </span></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">Christ myth theory</a> is the proposition that Jesus of Nazareth never existed, or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Christian">founding of Christianity</a> and the accounts in the gospels.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 21st century, there have been <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory#Further_reading" title="Christ myth theory">a number of books</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory#Documentaries" title="Christ myth theory">documentaries</a> on this subject. For example, <a href="/wiki/Earl_Doherty" title="Earl Doherty">Earl Doherty</a> has written that Jesus may have been a real person, but that the biblical accounts of him are almost entirely fictional.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12">: 12 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many proponents use a <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory#Overview_of_main_mythicist_arguments" title="Christ myth theory">three-fold argument</a> first developed in the 19th century: that the New Testament has no historical value with respect to Jesus's existence, that there are no non-Christian references to Jesus from the first century, and that Christianity had pagan and/or mythical roots.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Contemporary scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed, and <a href="/wiki/Biblical_scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical scholar">biblical scholars</a> and classical historians view the theories of his nonexistence as effectively refuted.<sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GrantMajority-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-voorst16_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voorst16-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DunnPaul35_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DunnPaul35-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Price" title="Robert M. Price">Robert M. Price</a>, an atheist who denies the existence of Jesus, agrees that his perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Grant_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Grant (author)">Michael Grant</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Classicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Classicist">classicist</a> and historian) states that "In recent years, no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non-historicity of Jesus, or at any rate very few have, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary."<sup id="cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GrantMajority-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Burridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard A. Burridge">Richard A. Burridge</a> states, "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church's imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that anymore."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24–26">: 24–26 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First_century_Iudaea_province.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/First_century_Iudaea_province.gif/240px-First_century_Iudaea_province.gif" decoding="async" width="240" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/First_century_Iudaea_province.gif/360px-First_century_Iudaea_province.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/First_century_Iudaea_province.gif/480px-First_century_Iudaea_province.gif 2x" data-file-width="575" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Judea_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Judea (Roman province)">Judea Province</a> during the 1st century</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus" title="Sources for the historicity of Jesus">Sources for the historicity of Jesus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">Historical reliability of the Gospels</a></div> <p>The New Testament represents sources that have become <a href="/wiki/Canon_law" title="Canon law">canonical</a> for Christianity, and there are many <a href="/wiki/Gnostic_Gospels" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnostic Gospels">apocryphal texts</a> that are examples of the wide variety of writings in the first centuries <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">AD</a> that are related to Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Non-Christian sources that are used to study and establish the historicity of Jesus include Jewish sources such as <a href="/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus" title="Josephus on Jesus">Josephus</a>, and Roman sources such as <a href="/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Tacitus on Christ">Tacitus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Camber121_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Camber121-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chil460_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chil460-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Testament_sources">New Testament sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: New Testament sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pauline_epistles">Pauline epistles</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pauline epistles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Pauline_epistles" title="Pauline epistles">Pauline epistles</a></div> <p>The Pauline epistles are dated to between AD 50 and 60 (<i>i.e.</i>, approximately twenty to thirty years after the generally accepted time period for the death of Jesus), and are the earliest surviving Christian texts that include information about Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Adams94_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams94-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although <a href="/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle" title="Paul the Apostle">Paul the Apostle</a> provides little <a href="/wiki/Life_of_Jesus_in_the_New_Testament" class="mw-redirect" title="Life of Jesus in the New Testament">biographical information about Jesus</a><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> compared to the Gospels, he was a contemporary of Jesus and does make it clear that he considers Jesus to have been a real person<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Jew.<sup id="cite_ref-Tuckett126_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tuckett126-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JRDunn143_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JRDunn143-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McK38_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McK38-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Furnish19_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furnish19-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, he claims to have met with <a href="/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus" title="James, brother of Jesus">James</a>, the brother of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paul states that he personally knew and interacted with eyewitnesses of Jesus such as his most intimate disciples (Peter and John) and family members (his brother James) starting around 35 or 36 AD, within just a few years after the crucifixion, and got some direct information about his life from them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEhrman2012144–146_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEhrman2012144–146-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From Paul's writings alone, a fairly full outline of the life of Jesus can be found: his descent from Abraham and David, his upbringing in the Jewish Law, gathering together disciples, including Cephas (Peter) and John, having a brother named James, living an exemplary life, the Last Supper and betrayal, numerous details surrounding his death and resurrection (e.g. crucifixion, Jewish involvement in putting him to death, burial, resurrection, seen by Peter, James, the twelve and others) along with numerous quotations referring to notable teachings and events found in the Gospels.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 209–228">: 209–228 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synoptic_Gospels">Synoptic Gospels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Synoptic Gospels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg/170px-Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg/255px-Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg/340px-Byzantinischer_Maler_um_1020_003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1576" data-file-height="2323" /></a><figcaption>An 11th-century Byzantine manuscript containing the opening of the Gospel of Luke</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels" title="Synoptic Gospels">Synoptic Gospels</a></div> <p>The Synoptic Gospels are the primary sources of historical information about Jesus and of the religious movement he founded.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders93_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders93-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vermes_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vermes-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These religious gospels – the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a> – recount the life, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus" title="Ministry of Jesus">ministry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">crucifixion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection</a> of a Jew named Jesus who spoke <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a> and wore <a href="/wiki/Tzitzit" title="Tzitzit">tzitzit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are different hypotheses regarding the origin of the texts because the gospels of the New Testament were <a href="/wiki/Language_of_the_New_Testament" title="Language of the New Testament">written in Greek</a> for <a href="/wiki/Early_centers_of_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Early centers of Christianity">Greek-speaking communities</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were later translated into Syriac, Latin, and Coptic.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fourth gospel, the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a>, differs greatly from the Synoptic Gospels and scholars generally consider it to be less useful for reconstructions of the life of Jesus than the Synoptic Gospels. As James Crossley and Robert J. Myles explain, John "is of limited use for reconstructing the life of the historical Jesus."<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, since the third quest, John's gospel is seen as having more reliability than previously thought or is sometimes seen as even more reliable than the synoptics.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, certain sayings in John are as old as or older than their synoptic counterparts, his representation of the topography around <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> is often superior to that of the synoptics, his testimony that Jesus was executed before, rather than on, Passover, might well be more accurate, and his presentation of Jesus in the garden and the prior meeting held by the Jewish authorities are more historically plausible than their synoptic parallels.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historians often study the <a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles">historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles</a> when studying the reliability of the gospels, as the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Acts" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Acts">Book of Acts</a> was seemingly written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-biblical_sources">Non-biblical sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Non-biblical sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to biblical sources, there are a number of mentions of Jesus in non-Christian sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Blomberg431_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blomberg431-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Van_Voorst_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Voorst-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Thallos">Thallos</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Thallos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Biblical scholar <a href="/wiki/F._F._Bruce" title="F. F. Bruce">Frederick Fyvie Bruce</a> says the earliest mention of Jesus outside the New Testament occurs <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 55 AD</span> from a historian named <a href="/wiki/Thallus_(historian)" title="Thallus (historian)">Thallos</a>. Thallos' history, like the vast majority of ancient literature, has been lost but not before it was quoted by <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Julius_Africanus" title="Sextus Julius Africanus">Sextus Julius Africanus</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 160</span> – <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 240 AD</span>), a Christian writer, in his <i>History of the World</i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 220</span>). This book likewise was lost, but not before one of its citations of Thallos was taken up by the Byzantine historian <a href="/wiki/George_Syncellus" title="George Syncellus">George Syncellus</a> in his <i>Chronicle</i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 800</span>). There is no means by which certainty can be established concerning this or any of the other lost references, partial references, and questionable references that mention some aspect of Jesus' life or death, but in evaluating evidence, it is appropriate to note they exist.<sup id="cite_ref-Frederick_Fyvie_Bruce_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frederick_Fyvie_Bruce-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 29–33">: 29–33 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VVoorst39-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 20–23">: 20–23 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Josephus_and_Tacitus">Josephus and Tacitus</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Josephus and Tacitus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus" title="Josephus on Jesus">Josephus on Jesus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Tacitus on Christ">Tacitus on Christ</a></div> <p>There are two passages in the writings of the Jewish historian <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a>, and one from the Roman historian <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, that are generally considered good evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-Blomberg431_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blomberg431-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VVoorst39-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Josephus' <i><a href="/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews" title="Antiquities of the Jews">Antiquities of the Jews</a></i>, written around AD 93–94, includes two references to the biblical Jesus in Books <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XVIII#Chapter_3" class="extiw" title="s:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XVIII">18</a> and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XX#Chapter_9" class="extiw" title="s:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XX">20</a>. The general scholarly view is that while the longer passage, known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Testimonium_Flavianum" class="mw-redirect" title="Testimonium Flavianum">Testimonium Flavianum</a></i>, is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus, which was then subject to Christian interpolation.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the other mention in Josephus, Josephus scholar <a href="/wiki/Louis_H._Feldman" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis H. Feldman">Louis H. Feldman</a> has stated that "few have doubted the genuineness" of Josephus' reference to Jesus in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XX#Chapter_9" class="extiw" title="s:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XX">Antiquities 20, 9, 1</a> ("the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James"). Paul references meeting and interacting with James, Jesus' brother, and since this agreement between the different sources supports Josephus' statement, the statement is only disputed by a small number of scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-JospehusM662_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JospehusM662-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roman_historiography" title="Roman historiography">Roman historian</a> Tacitus referred to "Christus" and his execution by <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus)" title="Annals (Tacitus)">Annals</a></i> (written c. AD 116), <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_15#44" class="extiw" title="s:The Annals (Tacitus)/Book 15">book 15, chapter 44</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Van_Voorst" title="Robert E. Van Voorst">Robert E. Van Voorst</a> states that the very negative tone of Tacitus' comments on Christians makes the passage extremely unlikely to have been forged by a Christian scribe<sup id="cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VVoorst39-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Tacitus reference is now widely accepted as an independent confirmation of Jesus's crucifixion.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EddyB127_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EddyB127-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Talmud">Talmud</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Talmud"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_the_Talmud" title="Jesus in the Talmud">Jesus in the Talmud</a></div> <p>Other considerations outside Christendom include the possible mentions of Jesus in the Talmud. The Talmud speaks in some detail of the conduct of criminal cases of Israel whose texts were gathered together from 200 to 500 CE. <a href="/wiki/Johann_Maier_(talmudic_scholar)" title="Johann Maier (talmudic scholar)">Johann Maier</a> and Bart D. Ehrman argue this material is too late to be of much use. Ehrman explains that "Jesus is never mentioned in the oldest part of the Talmud, the <a href="/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah">Mishnah</a>, but appears only in the later commentaries of the Gemara."<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 67–69">: 67–69 </span></sup> Jesus is not mentioned by name, but there is a subtle attack on the virgin birth that refers to the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier <a href="/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Abdes_Pantera" title="Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera">Pantera</a> (Ehrman says, "In Greek the word for virgin is <i>parthenos"</i>), and a reference to Jesus' miracles as "black magic" learned when he lived in Egypt (as a toddler). Ehrman writes that few contemporary scholars treat this as historical.<sup id="cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 67">: 67 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mara_bar_Serapion">Mara bar Serapion</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mara bar Serapion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mara_bar_Serapion_on_Jesus" title="Mara bar Serapion on Jesus">Mara bar Serapion on Jesus</a></div> <p>There is only one <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical</a> writer who refers positively to Jesus and that is <a href="/wiki/Mara_bar_Serapion" title="Mara bar Serapion">Mara bar Serapion</a>, a Syriac Stoic, who wrote a letter to his son, who was also named Serapion, from a Roman prison. He speaks of the execution of 'the wise <a href="/wiki/Jesus,_King_of_the_Jews" title="Jesus, King of the Jews">king of the Jews</a>' and compares his death to that of <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a> at the hands of the Athenians. He links the death of the 'wise king' to the Jews being driven from their kingdom. He also states that the 'wise king' lives on because of the "new laws he laid down". The dating of the letter is disputed but was probably soon after 73 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz199876_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz199876-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars such as Robert Van Voorst see little doubt that the reference to the execution of the "king of the Jews" is about the death of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-VVoorst53_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VVoorst53-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others such as <a href="/wiki/Craig_A._Evans" title="Craig A. Evans">Craig A. Evans</a> see less value in the letter, given its uncertain date, and the ambiguity in the reference.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans41_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans41-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical-historical_research">Critical-historical research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Critical-historical research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Historical_criticism" title="Historical criticism">Historical criticism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">Textual criticism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics" title="Biblical hermeneutics">Biblical hermeneutics</a></div> <p>Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text".<sup id="cite_ref-Handbook,_78_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Handbook,_78-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The primary goal of historical criticism is to discover the text's primitive or original meaning in its original historical context and its literal sense. Historical criticism began in the 17th century and gained popular recognition in the 19th and 20th centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels">Historical reliability of the Gospels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Historical reliability of the Gospels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">Historical reliability of the Gospels</a></div> <p>The historical reliability of the gospels refers to the reliability and historic character of the <a href="/wiki/Gospel#Canonical_gospels" title="Gospel">four New Testament gospels</a> as historical documents. Historical reliability is not dependent on a source being inerrant or void of agendas since there are sources that are considered generally reliable despite having such traits (e.g. Josephus).<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The question of reliability is a matter of ongoing debate.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jesus_1995_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jesus_1995-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceC_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-religion-online.org_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-religion-online.org-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Bundling_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This claim has too many footnotes for reading to be smooth. (October 2024)">excessive citations</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Historians subject the gospels to critical analysis by differentiating authentic, reliable information from possible inventions, exaggerations, and alterations.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders93_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders93-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since there are more <a href="/wiki/Textual_variants_in_the_New_Testament" title="Textual variants in the New Testament">textual variants</a> (200,000–400,000) than words in the New Testament,<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> scholars use <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">textual criticism</a> to determine which gospel variants could theoretically be taken as original. To answer this question, scholars have to ask <a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels#Formation_and_sources" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">who wrote the gospels</a>, when they wrote them, what was their objective in writing them,<sup id="cite_ref-Rhodes-Eddy08_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rhodes-Eddy08-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> what sources the authors used, how reliable these sources were, and how far removed in time the sources were from the stories they narrate, or if they were altered later. Scholars may also look into the <a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">internal evidence</a> of the documents, to see if, for example, a document has misquoted texts from the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>, has made incorrect claims about geography, if the author appears to have hidden information, or if the author has fabricated a prophecy. Finally, scholars turn to external sources, including the testimony of early church leaders, to writers outside the church, primarily Jewish and Greco-Roman historians, who would have been more likely to have criticized the church, and to archaeological evidence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus">Quest for the historical Jesus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Quest for the historical Jesus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Oil painting of Reimarus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg/180px-Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg/270px-Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg/360px-Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="477" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus" title="Hermann Samuel Reimarus">Hermann Samuel Reimarus</a> (1694–1768) studied the historical Jesus.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">Quest for the historical Jesus</a></div> <p>Conventionaly since the 18th century, three scholarly quests for the historical Jesus are distinguished, each with distinct characteristics and based on different research criteria, which were often developed during each specific phase.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021–6_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021–6-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AlanP19_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlanP19-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These quests are distinguished from pre-Enlightenment approaches because they rely on the <a href="/wiki/Historical-critical_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical-critical method">historical-critical method</a> to study biblical narratives. While <a href="/wiki/Biblical_criticism" title="Biblical criticism">textual analysis of biblical sources</a> had taken place for centuries, these quests introduced new methods and specific techniques in the attempt to establish the historical validity of their conclusions.<sup id="cite_ref-criteria100_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criteria100-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Tucker Ferda, it is by now "conventional wisdom that the traditional threefold division of the quest for Jesus [...] is flawed".<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The threefold terminology uses the literature selectively, poses an incorrect periodization of research, and fails to note that the quest did not begin with Reimarus, as <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a> had claimed, but started earlier, with critical questions regarding the Christian origins narrative.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_quest">First quest</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: First quest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The scholarly effort to reconstruct an "authentic" historical picture of Jesus was a product of the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> skepticism of the late eighteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bible scholar <a href="/wiki/Gerd_Theissen" title="Gerd Theissen">Gerd Theissen</a> explains that "It was concerned with presenting a historically true life of Jesus that functioned theologically as a critical force over against [established Roman Catholic] Christology."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021_115-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first scholar to separate the historical Jesus from the theological Jesus in this way was philosopher, writer, classicist, Hebraist and Enlightenment free thinker <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus" title="Hermann Samuel Reimarus">Hermann Samuel Reimarus</a> (1694–1768).<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich_Groetsch_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich_Groetsch-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Copies of Reimarus' writings were discovered by <a href="/wiki/G._E._Lessing" class="mw-redirect" title="G. E. Lessing">G. E. Lessing</a> (1729–1781) in the library at Wolfenbüttel where Lessing was the librarian. Reimarus had left permission for his work to be published after his death, and Lessing did so between 1774 and 1778, publishing them as <i>Die Fragmente eines unbekannten Autors</i> (<i>The Fragments of an Unknown Author</i>). Over time, they came to be known as the <i>Wolfenbüttel Fragments</i> after the library where Lessing worked. Reimarus distinguished between what Jesus taught and how he is portrayed in the New Testament. According to Reimarus, Jesus was a political <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">messiah</a> who failed at creating political change and was executed. His disciples then stole the body and invented the story of the resurrection for personal gain.<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich_Groetsch_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich_Groetsch-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-David_R._Law1_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David_R._Law1-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 46–48">: 46–48 </span></sup> Reimarus' controversial work prompted a response from "the father of historical critical research" Johann Semler in 1779, <i>Beantwortung der Fragmente eines Ungenannten</i> (<i>Answering the Fragments of an Unknown</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-H._Rollman_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H._Rollman-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Semler refuted Reimarus' arguments, but it was of little consequence. Reimarus' writings had already made lasting changes by making it clear criticism could exist independently of theology and faith, and by founding historical Jesus studies within that non-sectarian view.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-David_R._Law1_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David_R._Law1-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 48">: 48 </span></sup> </p><p> According to <a href="/wiki/Homer_W._Smith" title="Homer W. Smith">Homer W. Smith</a>, the work of Lessing and others culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> theologian <a href="/wiki/David_Strauss" title="David Strauss">David Strauss</a>'s <i>Das Leben Jesu</i> ('The Life of Jesus', 1835), in which Strauss expresses his conclusion that Jesus existed, but that his godship is the result of "a historic nucleus [being] worked over and reshaped into an ideal form by the first Christians under the influence of <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> models and the idea of the messiah found in <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Daniel" title="Book of Daniel">Daniel</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019,_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg/170px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg/255px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg/340px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="539" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, whose book coined the phrase <i>Quest [for] the Historical Jesus</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The enthusiasm shown during the first quest diminished after <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>'s critique of 1906 in which he pointed out various shortcomings in the approaches used at the time. After Schweitzer's <i>Von Reimarus zu Wrede</i> was translated and published in English as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Quest_of_the_Historical_Jesus" title="The Quest of the Historical Jesus">The Quest of the Historical Jesus</a></i> in 1910, the book's title provided the label for the field of study for eighty years.<sup id="cite_ref-Frank_Leslie_Cross_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank_Leslie_Cross-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 779–">: 779– </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_quest">Second quest</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Second quest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus#Second_quest" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">second quest</a> began in 1953 and introduced a number of new techniques, but faded away in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-voorst2_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voorst2-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Third_quest">Third quest</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Third quest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1980s a number of scholars gradually began to introduce new research ideas,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Symbol41_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Symbol41-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> initiating a <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus#Third_quest" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">third quest</a> characterized by the latest research approaches.<sup id="cite_ref-voorst2_122-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voorst2-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-criteria28_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criteria28-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the modern aspects of the third quest has been the role of archaeology; <a href="/wiki/James_Charlesworth" class="mw-redirect" title="James Charlesworth">James Charlesworth</a> states that modern scholars now want to use archaeological discoveries that clarify the nature of life in <a href="/wiki/Galilee" title="Galilee">Galilee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Judea" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Judea">Judea</a> during the time of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth11_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth11-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further characteristic of the third quest has been the interdisciplinary and global nature of its scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-ChiltonJacob_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChiltonJacob-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the first two quests were mostly carried out by European Protestant theologians, a modern aspect of the third quest is the worldwide influx of scholars from multiple disciplines.<sup id="cite_ref-ChiltonJacob_126-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChiltonJacob-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, historicists have focused their attention on the historical writings associated with the era in which Jesus lived<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or on the evidence concerning his family.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of the twentieth century, scholar Tom Holmén writes that Enlightenment skepticism had given way to a more "trustful attitude toward the historical reliability of the sources ... [Currently] the conviction of Sanders, (we know quite a lot about Jesus) characterizes the majority of contemporary studies."<sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Holmén_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tom_Holmén-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43">: 43 </span></sup> Reflecting this shift, the phrase "quest for the historical Jesus" has largely been replaced by <i>life of Jesus research.</i><sup id="cite_ref-William_Telford_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-William_Telford-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 33">: 33 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Demise_of_authenticity_and_the_"Next_Quest""><span id="Demise_of_authenticity_and_the_.22Next_Quest.22"></span>Demise of authenticity and the "Next Quest"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Demise of authenticity and the "Next Quest""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the late 1900s, concerns have been growing about the usefulness of the criteria of authenticity.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Le Donne, the usage of such criteria is a form of "<a href="/wiki/Positivism" title="Positivism">positivist</a> <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/James_Dunn_(theologian)" title="James Dunn (theologian)"> James DG Dunn</a>, "What we actually have in the earliest retellings of what is now the Synoptic tradition...are the memories of the first disciples-not Jesus himself, but the remembered Jesus. The idea that we can get back to an objective historical reality, which we can wholly separate and disentangle from the disciples' memories...is simply unrealistic."<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Chris Keith, a historical Jesus is "ultimately unattainable, but can be hypothesized on the basis of the interpretations of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Christians">early Christians</a>, and as part of a larger process of accounting for how and why early Christians came to view Jesus in the ways that they did." According to Keith, "these two models are methodologically and epistemologically incompatible," calling into question the methods and aim of the first model.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, James Crossley (editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_for_the_Study_of_the_Historical_Jesus" title="Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus">Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus</a></i>) announced that historical Jesus scholarship now had moved to the era of the Next Quest. The Next Quest has moved on from the criteria, obsessions with the uniqueness of Jesus, and the <a href="/wiki/Supersessionism" title="Supersessionism">supersessionism</a> still implicit in scholarly questions of the Jewishness of Jesus. Instead, sober scholarship now focuses on treating the subject matter as part of the wider human phenomenon of religion, cultural comparison, class relations, slave culture and economy, and the social history of historical Jesus scholarship and wider reception histories of the historical Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book by Crossley and Robert J. Myles, <i>Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict</i>, is indicative of this new tendency.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Others have criticized claims of a Fourth Quest and had a more measured response to critique of the criteria. The actual problem is arguably that critics use them inappropriately, trying to describe the history of minute portions of the Gospel text, rather than a true flaw in the historical logic of the criteria. According to Tucker Ferda, "...criticisms of the criteria have sometimes produced rather grandiose claims about their "uselessness," which do not seem justified when one looks at the kind of argument that those same critics will use when making positive claims about the historical Jesus...criticisms of the notion of "authenticity" or "historicity" can create the impression that there is more disagreement with earlier research than is actually the case."<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Methods">Methods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Methods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_multiple_attestation" title="Criterion of multiple attestation">Criterion of multiple attestation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment" title="Criterion of embarrassment">Criterion of embarrassment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_dissimilarity" title="Criterion of dissimilarity">Criterion of dissimilarity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Textual,_source_and_form-criticism"><span id="Textual.2C_source_and_form-criticism"></span>Textual, source and form-criticism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Textual, source and form-criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus#First_quest" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">first quest</a>, which started in 1778, was almost entirely based on <a href="/wiki/Biblical_criticism" title="Biblical criticism">biblical criticism</a>. This took the form of textual and source criticism originally, which were supplemented with <a href="/wiki/Form_criticism" title="Form criticism">form criticism</a> in 1919, and <a href="/wiki/Redaction_criticism" title="Redaction criticism">redaction criticism</a> in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-criteria100_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criteria100-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Form criticism began as an attempt to trace the history of the biblical material during the oral period before it was written in its current form, and may be seen as starting where textual criticism ends.<sup id="cite_ref-Westdic215_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westdic215-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Form criticism views Gospel writers as editors, not authors. Redaction criticism may be viewed as the child of source criticism and form criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-DHar96_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DHar96-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and views the Gospel writers as authors and early theologians and tries to understand how the redactor(s) has (have) molded the narrative to express their own perspectives.<sup id="cite_ref-DHar96_143-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DHar96-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criteria_of_authenticity">Criteria of authenticity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Criteria of authenticity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When form criticism questioned the historical reliability of the Gospels, scholars began looking for other criteria. Taken from other areas of study such as source criticism, the "criteria of authenticity" emerged gradually, becoming a distinct branch of methodology associated with life of Jesus research.<sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Holmén_133-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tom_Holmén-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43–54">: 43–54 </span></sup> The <i>criteria</i> are a variety of rules used to determine if some event or person is more or less likely to be historical. These criteria are primarily, though not exclusively, used to assess the sayings and actions of Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Donald_L._Denton,_Jr._144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Donald_L._Denton,_Jr.-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 193–199">: 193–199 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tobias_Hägerland_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tobias_Hägerland-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3–33">: 3–33 </span></sup> </p><p>In view of the skepticism produced in the mid-twentieth century by form criticism concerning the historical reliability of the gospels, the burden shifted in historical Jesus studies from attempting to identify an authentic life of Jesus to attempting to prove authenticity. The criteria developed within this framework, therefore, are tools that provide arguments solely for authenticity, not inauthenticity.<sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Holmén_133-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tom_Holmén-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43">: 43 </span></sup> In 1901, the application of criteria of authenticity began with dissimilarity. It was often applied unevenly with a preconceived goal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021_115-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Holmén_133-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tom_Holmén-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 40–45">: 40–45 </span></sup> In the early decades of the twentieth century, <a href="/wiki/F._C._Burkitt" class="mw-redirect" title="F. C. Burkitt">F. C. Burkitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/B._H._Streeter" title="B. H. Streeter">B. H. Streeter</a> provided the foundation for multiple attestation. The Second Quest introduced the <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment" title="Criterion of embarrassment">criterion of embarrassment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-criteria100_109-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criteria100-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1950s, coherence was also included. By 1987, D. Polkow lists 25 separate criteria being used by scholars to test for historical authenticity including the criterion of "historical plausibility".<sup id="cite_ref-criteria100_109-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-criteria100-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Donald_L._Denton,_Jr._144-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Donald_L._Denton,_Jr.-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 193–199">: 193–199 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism">Criticism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus#Criticism" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">Quest for the historical Jesus § Criticism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Criticism" title="Criticism">Criticism</a></div> <p>A number of scholars have criticized the various approaches used in the study of the historical Jesus—on one hand, for the lack of rigor in research methods; on the other, for being driven by "specific agendas" that interpret ancient sources to fit specific goals.<sup id="cite_ref-Allison59_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allison59-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Meier2009_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meier2009-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MarshQ_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MarshQ-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 21st century, the "<a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Biblical_maximalism" title="Historicity of the Bible">maximalist</a>" approaches of the 19th century, which accepted all the gospels, and the "<a href="/wiki/Biblical_minimalism" title="Biblical minimalism">minimalist</a>" trends of the early 20th century, which totally rejected them, were abandoned and scholars began to focus on what is historically probable and plausible about Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Meier124_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meier124-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Keener163_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keener163-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Borg4_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Borg4-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baptism_and_crucifixion">Baptism and crucifixion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Baptism and crucifixion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pilate_Inscription.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Pilate_Inscription.JPG/220px-Pilate_Inscription.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Pilate_Inscription.JPG/330px-Pilate_Inscription.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Pilate_Inscription.JPG/440px-Pilate_Inscription.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>The <i><a href="/wiki/Pilate_Stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilate Stone">Pilate Stone</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" title="Caesarea Maritima">Caesarea Maritima</a>, now at the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Museum" title="Israel Museum">Israel Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>There is widespread disagreement among scholars on the details of the life of Jesus mentioned in the gospel narratives, and on the meaning of his teachings.<sup id="cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAPowell168-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholars differ on the historicity of specific episodes described in the biblical accounts of Jesus,<sup id="cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAPowell168-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but almost all modern scholars consider his <a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">baptism</a> and crucifixion to be historical facts.<sup id="cite_ref-JDunn339_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JDunn339-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Verhoof39_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verhoof39-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baptism">Baptism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Baptism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus">Baptism of Jesus</a></div> <p>The existence of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a> within the same time frame as Jesus, and his eventual execution by <a href="/wiki/Herod_Antipas" title="Herod Antipas">Herod Antipas</a> is attested to by 1st-century Roman-Jewish historian <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a> and the overwhelming majority of modern scholars view Josephus' accounts of the activities of John the Baptist as authentic.<sup id="cite_ref-AmyJill55_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AmyJill55-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the arguments in favor of the historicity of the Baptism of Jesus by John is the <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment" title="Criterion of embarrassment">criterion of embarrassment</a>, i.e. that it is a story which the early Christian Church would have never wanted to invent, as it implies that Jesus was subservient to John.<sup id="cite_ref-Powell47_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powell47-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Whois31_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whois31-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Casey35_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casey35-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another argument used in favour of the historicity of the baptism is that multiple accounts refer to it, usually called the criterion of <a href="/wiki/Multiple_attestation" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple attestation">multiple attestation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Murphy29_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murphy29-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Technically, multiple attestation does not guarantee authenticity, but only determines antiquity.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, for most scholars, together with the criterion of embarrassment it lends credibility to the baptism of Jesus by John being a historical event.<sup id="cite_ref-Murphy29_158-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murphy29-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crucifixion">Crucifixion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Crucifixion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus" title="Crucifixion of Jesus">Crucifixion of Jesus</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/John_P._Meier" title="John P. Meier">John P. Meier</a> views the crucifixion of Jesus as a historical fact and states that based on the <a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment" title="Criterion of embarrassment">criterion of embarrassment</a>, Christians would not have invented the painful death of their leader.<sup id="cite_ref-JMeier126_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMeier126-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meier states that a number of other criteria – the criterion of <i><a href="/wiki/Multiple_attestation" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple attestation">multiple attestation</a></i> (i.e., confirmation by more than one source), the <i>criterion of coherence</i> (i.e., that it fits with other historical elements) and the <i>criterion of rejection</i> (i.e., that it is not disputed by ancient sources) – help establish the crucifixion of Jesus as a historical event.<sup id="cite_ref-JMeier126_163-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMeier126-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eddy and Boyd state that it is now firmly established that there is non-Christian confirmation of the crucifixion of Jesus – referring to the mentions in Josephus and Tacitus.<sup id="cite_ref-EddyB127_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EddyB127-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most scholars in the third <a href="/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus" title="Quest for the historical Jesus">quest for the historical Jesus</a> consider the crucifixion indisputable,<sup id="cite_ref-Crossan145_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossan145-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JMeier126_163-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMeier126-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman136_165-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman136-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as do Bart Ehrman,<sup id="cite_ref-Ehrman136_165-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ehrman136-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Dominic_Crossan" title="John Dominic Crossan">John Dominic Crossan</a><sup id="cite_ref-Crossan145_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossan145-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and James Dunn.<sup id="cite_ref-JDunn339_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JDunn339-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although scholars agree on the historicity of the crucifixion, they differ on the reason and context for it, e.g. both E. P. Sanders and <a href="/wiki/Paula_Fredriksen" title="Paula Fredriksen">Paula Fredriksen</a> support the historicity of the crucifixion, but contend that Jesus did not foretell his own crucifixion, and that <a href="/wiki/Jesus_predicts_his_death" title="Jesus predicts his death">his prediction of the crucifixion</a> is a Christian story.<sup id="cite_ref-Ernest125_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ernest125-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9za_Vermes" title="Géza Vermes">Géza Vermes</a> also views the crucifixion as a historical event but believes this was due to Jesus’ challenging of Roman authority.<sup id="cite_ref-Ernest125_166-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ernest125-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Casey" title="Maurice Casey">Maurice Casey</a> and John P. Meier state that Jesus did predict his death, and this actually strengthened his followers' belief in his Resurrection.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mara_bar_Serapion" title="Mara bar Serapion">Mara bar Serapion</a> is the only source from the ancient world that mentions the execution of Jesus for the charge of "King of the Jews". Bart Ehrman states that Jesus portrayed himself as the leader of the future Kingdom and that a number of criteria – the criterion of multiple attestation and criterion of dissimilarity – establishes the crucifixion of Jesus as a enemy of state.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Possibly_historical_elements">Possibly historical elements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Possibly historical elements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Scholarly_interpretation_of_Gospel_elements" title="Scholarly interpretation of Gospel elements">Scholarly interpretation of Gospel elements</a></div> <p>In addition to the two historical elements of baptism and crucifixion, scholars attribute varying levels of certainty to various other aspects of the life of Jesus, although there is no universal agreement among scholars on these items:<sup id="cite_ref-Evans37_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans37-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Jesus was a <a href="/wiki/Galilean" title="Galilean">Galilean</a> Jew who was born between 7 and 2 BC and died 30–36 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-ChronosPaul_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChronosPaul-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus lived only in Galilee and Judea:<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most scholars reject that there is any evidence that an adult Jesus traveled or studied outside Galilee and Judea. <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Borg" title="Marcus Borg">Marcus Borg</a> states that the suggestions that an adult Jesus traveled to Egypt or India are "without historical foundation".<sup id="cite_ref-Dunn303_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunn303-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Dominic Crossan states that none of the theories presented to fill the gap of 15–18 years between Jesus's early life and the start of his ministry have been supported by modern scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Voorst117118_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voorst117118-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a> refers to "Jesus the Nazarene" several times and scholars such as <a href="/wiki/Andreas_Kostenberger" class="mw-redirect" title="Andreas Kostenberger">Andreas Kostenberger</a> and Robert Van Voorst hold that some of these references are to Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKostenbergerKellumQuarles2009107–109_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKostenbergerKellumQuarles2009107–109-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Voorst117118_181-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Voorst117118-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nazareth" title="Nazareth">Nazareth</a> is not mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a> and the Christian gospels portray it as an insignificant village, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/John#1:46" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Bible (American Standard)/John">John 1:46</a> asking "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?"<sup id="cite_ref-Redford32_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Redford32-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Craig_S._Keener" title="Craig S. Keener">Craig S. Keener</a> states that it is rarely disputed that Jesus was from Nazareth, an obscure small village not worthy of invention.<sup id="cite_ref-Redford32_183-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Redford32-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gerd Theissen concurs with that conclusion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998165"Our_conclusion_must_be_that_Jesus_came_from_Nazareth."_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998165"Our_conclusion_must_be_that_Jesus_came_from_Nazareth."-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus spoke Aramaic, and may have also spoken Hebrew and Greek.<sup id="cite_ref-BarrLang_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BarrLang-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter110_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter110-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The languages spoken in Galilee and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Judea" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Judea">Judea</a> during the 1st century include the <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> Aramaic and Hebrew languages as well as Greek, with Aramaic being the predominant language.<sup id="cite_ref-BarrLang_186-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BarrLang-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter110_187-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter110-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus called disciples: John P. Meier sees the calling of disciples a natural consequence of the information available about Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans37_170-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans37-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MAPowell117_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAPowell117-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/N._T._Wright" title="N. T. Wright">N. T. Wright</a> accepts that there were twelve disciples, but holds that the list of their names cannot be determined with certainty. John Dominic Crossan disagrees, stating that Jesus did not call disciples and had an "open to all" egalitarian approach, imposed no hierarchy and preached to all in equal terms.<sup id="cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, James Crossley and Robert J. Myles and the emerging consensus disagree with Crossan, arguing that "we should dispel romantic notions that this movement was proudly egalitarian and progressive in the sense of the 'radical liberalism' of today" and instead point out that the core Twelve may have been "a central committee or politburo with membership sometimes changing."<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus caused a <a href="/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple" title="Cleansing of the Temple">controversy at the Temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans37_170-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans37-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MAPowell117_190-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAPowell117-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>After his death his disciples continued, and some of his disciples were persecuted.<sup id="cite_ref-Evans37_170-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evans37-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus had a <a href="/wiki/Burial" title="Burial">burial</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrossleyMyles2023_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossleyMyles2023-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (October 2024)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <p>Some scholars have proposed further additional historical possibilities such as: </p> <ul><li>An approximate <a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus" title="Chronology of Jesus">chronology of Jesus</a> can be estimated from non-Christian sources, and confirmed by correlating them with New Testament accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-ChronosPaul_175-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChronosPaul-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lion40_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lion40-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Claims about the <a href="/wiki/Race_and_appearance_of_Jesus" title="Race and appearance of Jesus">appearance or ethnicity of Jesus</a> are mostly subjective, based on cultural stereotypes and societal trends rather than on scientific analysis.<sup id="cite_ref-Kidd18_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kidd18-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LHoulden63_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LHoulden63-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Perkinson30_197-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perkinson30-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist can be dated approximately from Josephus' references (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XVIII#Chapter_5" class="extiw" title="s:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XVIII"><i>Antiquities</i> 18.5.2</a>) to a date before AD 28–35.<sup id="cite_ref-AmyJill55_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AmyJill55-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fox25_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox25-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hoehner125_199-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoehner125-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Bundling_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This claim has too many footnotes for reading to be smooth. (October 2024)">excessive citations</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The main topic of his teaching was the <a href="/wiki/Kingship_and_kingdom_of_God" title="Kingship and kingdom of God">Kingdom of God</a>, and he presented this teaching in <a href="/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus" title="Parables of Jesus">parables</a> that were surprising and sometimes confounding.<sup id="cite_ref-5GIntro_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5GIntro-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Jesus taught an ethic of forgiveness, as expressed in aphorisms such as "<a href="/wiki/Turn_the_other_cheek" class="mw-redirect" title="Turn the other cheek">turn the other cheek</a>" or "go the extra mile".<sup id="cite_ref-5GIntro_202-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5GIntro-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within the traditional ethic of "Christian forgiveness" there are differing views regarding the nature of forgiveness as taught by Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2024)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The date of the crucifixion of Jesus was earlier than 36 AD, based on the dates of the prefecture of <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a> who was governor of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Judea" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Judea">Roman Judea</a> from 26 AD until 36 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Portraits_of_the_historical_Jesus">Portraits of the historical Jesus</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Portraits of the historical Jesus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scholars involved in the third and next quests for the historical Jesus have constructed a variety of portraits and profiles for Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, there is little scholarly agreement on the portraits, or the methods used in constructing them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter74_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter74-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997197_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997197-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The portraits of Jesus that have been constructed in the quest for the historical Jesus have often differed from each other, and from the image portrayed in the gospel accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These portraits include that of Jesus as an <i>apocalyptic prophet</i>, <i>charismatic healer</i>, <i>Cynic philosopher</i>, <i>Jewish Messiah</i> and <i>prophet of social change</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there is little scholarly agreement on a single portrait, or the methods needed to construct it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charlesworth2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter74_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter74-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are, however, overlapping attributes among the various portraits, and scholars who differ on some attributes may agree on others.<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conception of a "Historical Jesus" is limited to the abductions from modern scholars on the sources and the results can only produce fragments of what the "real Jesus" or "Jesus of history" may have been.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such conceptions are merely a sketch or model which may inform about but never will be the real Jesus of history; similar to how models exist in the natural sciences that inform about phenomena without specifying a particular object.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> W.R. Herzog has stated that: "What we call the historical Jesus is the composite of the recoverable bits and pieces of historical information and speculation about him that we assemble, construct, and reconstruct. For this reason, the historical Jesus is, in Meier's words, 'a modern abstraction and construct.'"<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Contemporary scholarship, representing the "third quest" and the "next quest" places Jesus firmly in the Jewish tradition. Jesus was a Jewish preacher who taught that he was the path to <a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">salvation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality">everlasting</a> life, and the Kingdom of God.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A primary criterion used to discern historical details in the "third quest" is that of plausibility, relative to Jesus' Jewish context and to his influence on Christianity. Contemporary scholars of the "third quest" include E. P. Sanders, Géza Vermes, Gerd Theissen, Christoph Burchard, and <a href="/wiki/John_Dominic_Crossan" title="John Dominic Crossan">John Dominic Crossan</a>. In contrast to the Schweitzerian view, certain North American scholars, such as <a href="/wiki/Burton_Mack" class="mw-redirect" title="Burton Mack">Burton Mack</a>, advocate for a non-eschatological Jesus, one who is more of a Cynic sage than an apocalyptic preacher.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz19981–15_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz19981–15-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given that Jesus was poor, long-established historiographical approaches associated with the study of the poor in the past, such as <a href="/wiki/Microhistory" title="Microhistory">microhistory</a>, are relevant to the study of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mainstream_views">Mainstream views</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Mainstream views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite the significant differences among scholars on what constitutes a suitable portrait for Jesus, the mainstream views supported by a number of scholars may be grouped together based on certain distinct, primary themes.<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These portraits often include overlapping elements, and there are also differences among the followers of each portrait. The subsections below present the main portraits that are supported by multiple mainstream scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-Cradel124_24-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambHist23_25-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Apocalyptic_prophet">Apocalyptic prophet</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Apocalyptic prophet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Apocalypticism" title="Apocalypticism">Apocalypticism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish eschatology</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bart_Ehrman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bart_Ehrman.jpg/170px-Bart_Ehrman.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bart_Ehrman.jpg/255px-Bart_Ehrman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bart_Ehrman.jpg/340px-Bart_Ehrman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1643" data-file-height="2242" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bart_Ehrman" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart Ehrman">Bart Ehrman</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The apocalyptic prophet view primarily emphasizes Jesus preparing his fellow Jews for the <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">End Times</a>. The first proponent of this hypothesis was <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a> in his 1906 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Quest_of_the_Historical_Jesus" title="The Quest of the Historical Jesus">The Quest of the Historical Jesus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The works of E. P. Sanders and <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Casey" title="Maurice Casey">Maurice Casey</a> place Jesus within the context of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish eschatological tradition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997136_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997136-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sanders_15_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders_15-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 169–204">: 169–204 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Casey2010_217-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casey2010-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 199–235">: 199–235 </span></sup> Bart D. Ehrman aligns himself with Schweitzer's view that Jesus expected an apocalypse during his own generation, and he bases some of his views on the argument that the earliest gospel sources (for which he assumes <a href="/wiki/Markan_priority" class="mw-redirect" title="Markan priority">Markan priority</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Thessalonians" title="First Epistle to the Thessalonians">First Epistle to the Thessalonians</a>, chapters 4 and 5, probably written by the end of AD 52, present Jesus as far more apocalyptic than other Christian sources produced towards the end of the 1st century, contending that the apocalyptic messages were progressively toned down.<sup id="cite_ref-EhrmanAp130_218-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EhrmanAp130-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dale_Allison" title="Dale Allison">Dale C. Allison Jr.</a> does not see Jesus as advocating specific timetables for the End Times, but sees him as preaching his own doctrine of "apocalyptic eschatology" derived from post-exilitic Jewish teachings,<sup id="cite_ref-DaleA32_219-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DaleA32-219"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and views the apocalyptic teachings of Jesus as a form of <a href="/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">asceticism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other scholars follow most themes of the apocalyptic portrait, but take such teachings of Jesus as relating to the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> and not the end of the world<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Bundling_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This claim has too many footnotes for reading to be smooth. (October 2024)">excessive citations</span></a></i>]</sup> due to the wider significance of the Temple in Judaism that would warrant apocalyptic language.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The characterization of Jesus as an apocalyptic or millenarian prophet can also be combined with other categories, such as in the work of James Crossley and Robert J. Myles (see below) who regard the end-time teaching of Jesus as a culturally credible way of responding to social and material upheaval in Galilee and Judea.<sup id="cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossley_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Charismatic_healer">Charismatic healer</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Charismatic healer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG/170px-Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG/255px-Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG/340px-Marcus_Borg_speaking_in_Mansfield_College_chapel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1044" data-file-height="1095" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Borg" title="Marcus Borg">Marcus Borg</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The charismatic healer portrait positions Jesus as a pious and holy man in the view of Géza Vermes, whose profile draws on the <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmudic</a> representations of Jewish figures such as <a href="/wiki/Hanina_ben_Dosa" title="Hanina ben Dosa">Hanina ben Dosa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Honi_HaMe%27agel" title="Honi HaMe'agel">Honi the Circle Drawer</a> and presents Jesus as a Hasid.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997108_227-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997108-227"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Borg" title="Marcus Borg">Marcus Borg</a> views Jesus as a charismatic "man of the spirit", a mystic or visionary who acts as a conduit for the "Spirit of God". Borg sees this as a well-defined religious personality type, whose actions often involve healing.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III199798_229-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III199798-229"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Borg sees Jesus as a non-eschatological figure who did not intend to start a new religion, but his message set him at odds with the Jewish powers of his time based on the "politics of holiness".<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Sanders and Casey agree that Jesus was also a charismatic healer in addition to an apocalyptic prophet.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanders_15_216-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanders_15-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 132–168">: 132–168 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Casey2010_217-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casey2010-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 237–279">: 237–279 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cynic_philosopher">Cynic philosopher</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Cynic philosopher"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)" title="Cynicism (philosophy)">Cynicism (philosophy)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg/220px-11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg/330px-11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg/440px-11_08_6972_John_Dominic_Crossan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Dominic_Crossan" title="John Dominic Crossan">John Dominic Crossan</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the Cynic philosopher profile, Jesus is presented as a Cynic, a traveling sage and philosopher preaching a cynical and radical message of change to abolish the existing hierarchical structure of the society of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/John_Dominic_Crossan" title="John Dominic Crossan">John Dominic Crossan</a>'s view Jesus was crucified not for religious reasons but because his social teachings challenged the seat of power held by the Jewish authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Crossan believes Galilee was a place where Greek and Jewish culture heavily interacted,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsaac2017127,_156_231-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsaac2017127,_156-231"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="/wiki/Gadara" title="Gadara">Gadara</a>, a day's walk from <a href="/wiki/Nazareth" title="Nazareth">Nazareth</a>, being a center of Cynic philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Burton_L._Mack" title="Burton L. Mack">Burton Mack</a> also holds that Jesus was a Cynic whose teachings were so different from those of his time that they shocked the audience and forced them to think, but Mack views his death as accidental and not due to his challenge to Jewish authority.<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jewish_Messiah">Jewish Messiah</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Jewish Messiah"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">Messiah in Judaism</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Messiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Messiah">Jewish Messiah</a> portrait of <a href="/wiki/N._T._Wright" title="N. T. Wright">N. T. Wright</a> places Jesus within the Jewish context of "exile and return", a notion he uses to build on his view of the 1st-century concept of hope.<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wright believes that Jesus was the Messiah and argues that the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection of Jesus</a> was a physical and historical event.<sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wright's portrait of Jesus is closer to the traditional Christian views than many other scholars, and when he departs from the Christian tradition, his views are still close to them.<sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Wright, <a href="/wiki/Markus_Bockmuehl" title="Markus Bockmuehl">Markus Bockmuehl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Stuhlmacher" title="Peter Stuhlmacher">Peter Stuhlmacher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brant_Pitre" class="mw-redirect" title="Brant Pitre">Brant J. Pitre</a> support the view that Jesus came to announce the end of the Jewish <i>spiritual exile</i> and usher in a new messianic era in which God would improve this world through the faith of his people.<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prophet_of_social_change">Prophet of social change</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Prophet of social change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The prophet of social change portrait positions Jesus primarily as someone who challenged the traditional social structures of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–38_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–38-236"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gerd Theissen sees three main elements to the activities of Jesus as he effected social change: his positioning as the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_man" title="Son of man">Son of man</a>, the core group of disciples that followed him, and his localized supporters as he journeyed through Galilee and Judea. <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Horsley" title="Richard A. Horsley">Richard A. Horsley</a> goes further and presents Jesus as a more radical reformer who initiated a <a href="/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots">grassroots</a> movement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–138_237-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–138-237"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Kaylor_(professor)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Kaylor (professor)">David Kaylor</a>'s ideas are close to those of Horsley, but have a more religious focus and base the actions of Jesus on covenant theology and his desire for justice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–138_237-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997137–138-237"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Sch%C3%BCssler_Fiorenza" title="Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza">Elisabeth Fiorenza</a> has presented a feminist perspective which sees Jesus as a social reformer whose actions such as the acceptance of women followers resulted in the liberation of some women of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997161–163_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997161–163-238"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Crossley and Robert J. Myles advocate a nuanced historical materialist perspective of Jesus as a religious organizer who responded to the intersecting material conditions of Galilee and Judea in culturally credible ways such as through intra-Jewish legal debate and a revolutionary millenarian proclamation.<sup id="cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crossley_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/S._G._F._Brandon" title="S. G. F. Brandon">S. G. F. Brandon</a>, Fernando Bermejo Rubio, and <a href="/wiki/Reza_Aslan" title="Reza Aslan">Reza Aslan</a> argue that Jesus was an anti-Roman revolutionary that tried to overthrow Roman rule in Palestine and re-establish the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(united_monarchy)" title="Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)">Kingdom of Israel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Rabbi">Rabbi</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Rabbi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> portrait advances the idea that Jesus was simply a rabbi who sought to reform certain ideas within Judaism. This idea can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when various liberal Jews sought to emphasize the Jewish nature of Jesus, and saw him as something of a proto-<a href="/wiki/Reform_Judaism" title="Reform Judaism">Reform Jew</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perhaps the most prominent of these was Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Emil_G._Hirsch" title="Emil G. Hirsch">Emil G. Hirsch</a>, who in <i>The Doctrine of Jesus</i> wrote: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We quote the rabbis of the Talmud; shall we then, not also quote the rabbi of Bethlehem? Shall not he in whom there burned, if it burned in anyone, the spirit and the light of Judaism, be reclaimed by the synagogue?<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Chilton" title="Bruce Chilton">Bruce Chilton</a>, in his book <i>Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography</i>, painted Jesus as a devout student of John the Baptist who came to see it as his mission to restore the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Temple</a> to purity, and purge the Romans and the corrupt priests from its midst.<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jaroslav_Pelikan" title="Jaroslav Pelikan">Jaroslav Pelikan</a>, in <i>The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries</i> stated: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Alongside <a href="/wiki/Immanuel" title="Immanuel">Immanuel</a>, "God with us" – the Hebrew title given to the child in the prophecy of Isaiah (7:14) and applied by Matthew (1:23) to Jesus, but not used to address him except in such apostrophes as the medieval antiphon Veni, Veni, Immanuel that forms the epigraph to this chapter – four Aramaic words appear as titles for Jesus: Rabbi, or teacher; Amen, or prophet; Messias, or Christ; and <a href="/wiki/Mar_(title)" title="Mar (title)">Mar</a>, or Lord.</p></blockquote> <p>The most neutral and least controversial of these words is probably Rabbi, along with the related Rabbouni. Except for two passages, the Gospels apply the Aramaic word only to Jesus; and if we conclude that the title "teacher" or "master" (didaskalos in Greek) was intended as a translation of that Aramaic name, it seems safe to say that it was as Rabbi that Jesus was known and addressed.<sup id="cite_ref-PBS_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PBS-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The conservative evangelical scholar <a href="/wiki/Andreas_J._K%C3%B6stenberger" title="Andreas J. Köstenberger">Andreas J. Köstenberger</a> in <i>Jesus as Rabbi in the Fourth Gospel</i> also reached the conclusion that Jesus was seen by his contemporaries as a rabbi.<sup id="cite_ref-Köstenberger_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Köstenberger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, the book <i><a href="/wiki/Kosher_Jesus" title="Kosher Jesus">Kosher Jesus</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a> <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbi</a> <a href="/wiki/Shmuley_Boteach" title="Shmuley Boteach">Shmuley Boteach</a> was published in which Boteach takes the position that Jesus was a wise and learned <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>-observant Jewish rabbi. Boteach says he was a beloved member of the Jewish community. At the same time, Jesus is said to have despised the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Romans</a> for their cruelty, and to have fought them courageously. The book states that the Jews had nothing whatsoever to do with the murder of Jesus, but rather that the blame for his trial and killing lies with the Romans and <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a>. Boteach states clearly that he does not believe in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. At the same time, Boteach argues that "Jews have much to learn from Jesus – and from Christianity as a whole – without accepting Jesus' divinity. There are many reasons for accepting Jesus as a man of great wisdom, beautiful ethical teachings, and profound Jewish patriotism."<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-245"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He concludes by writing, as to <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Christian_values" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Christian values">Judeo-Christian values</a>, that "the hyphen between Jewish and Christian values is Jesus himself."<sup id="cite_ref-more_246-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-more-246"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-mainstream_views">Non-mainstream views</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Non-mainstream views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other portraits have been presented by individual scholars: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Witherington" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Witherington">Ben Witherington</a> supports the "Wisdom Sage" view and states that Jesus is best understood as a teacher of wisdom who saw himself as the embodiment or incarnation of God's Wisdom.<sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997161–163_238-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III1997161–163-238"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_P._Meier" title="John P. Meier">John P. Meier</a>'s portrait of Jesus as the <a href="/wiki/Marginal_Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Marginal Jew">Marginal Jew</a> is built on the view that Jesus knowingly marginalized himself in a number of ways, first by abandoning his profession as a carpenter and becoming a preacher with no means of support, then arguing against the teachings and traditions of the time while he had no formal rabbinic training.<sup id="cite_ref-familiar20_30-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ScottK117_230-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScottK117-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg/220px-Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg/330px-Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg/440px-Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Before_Unraveled.jpg 2x" data-file-width="555" data-file-height="375" /></a><figcaption>Two <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a> in the cave they were found, before being removed by archaeologists</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Eisenman" title="Robert Eisenman">Robert Eisenman</a> proposed that <a href="/wiki/James_the_Just" class="mw-redirect" title="James the Just">James the Just</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Teacher_of_Righteousness" title="Teacher of Righteousness">Teacher of Righteousness</a> mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, and that the image of Jesus of the gospels was constructed by the <a href="/wiki/Apostle_Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostle Paul">Apostle Paul</a> as pro-Roman propaganda.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyam_Maccoby" title="Hyam Maccoby">Hyam Maccoby</a> proposed that Jesus was a <a href="/wiki/Pharisee" class="mw-redirect" title="Pharisee">Pharisee</a>, that the positions ascribed to the Pharisees in the Gospels are very different from what we know of them, and in fact their opinions were very similar to those ascribed to Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harvey Falk also sees Jesus as proto-Pharisee or <a href="/wiki/Essene" class="mw-redirect" title="Essene">Essene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Smith" title="Morton Smith">Morton Smith</a> views Jesus as a <a href="/wiki/Jesus_the_Magician" title="Jesus the Magician">magician</a>, a view based on the presentation of Jesus in later Jewish sources and on (dubious) apocryphal writings such as the <a href="/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Secret Gospel of Mark">Secret Gospel of Mark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> saw Jesus as championing <a href="/wiki/Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchism</a> (although Tolstoy never actually used the term "Christian anarchism"; reviews of his book following its publication in 1894 coined the term.)<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>It has been suggested by psychiatrists <a href="/wiki/Oskar_Panizza" title="Oskar Panizza">Oskar Panizza</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> George de Loosten,<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William Hirsch,<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Sargant" title="William Sargant">William Sargant</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Storr" title="Anthony Storr">Anthony Storr</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Raj_Persaud" title="Raj Persaud">Raj Persaud</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> psychologist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Binet-Sangl%C3%A9" title="Charles Binet-Sanglé">Charles Binet-Sanglé</a><sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and others that <a href="/wiki/Mental_health_of_Jesus" title="Mental health of Jesus">Jesus had a mental disorder or psychiatric condition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theory is based on the fact that the Gospel of Mark (Mark 3:21) reports that <i>When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, ″He is out of his mind.″</i><sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Psychologist <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Witwicki" title="Władysław Witwicki">Władysław Witwicki</a> states that Jesus had difficulties communicating with the outside world and suffered from dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), which made him a schizothymic or even schizophrenic type.<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1998–2000 <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Polish</a> author Leszek Nowak (born 1962) from <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a> authored a study in which, based on his own history of delusions of mission and overvalued ideas, and information communicated in the Gospels, made an attempt at reconstructing Jesus’ psyche<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the view of the apocalyptic prophet.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biblical_archaeology" title="Biblical archaeology">Biblical archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biblical_manuscript" title="Biblical manuscript">Biblical manuscript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius" title="Census of Quirinius">Census of Quirinius</a>, a census of Judaea which was taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria, upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in AD 6.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">Christ myth theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criterion_of_dissimilarity" title="Criterion of dissimilarity">Criterion of dissimilarity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Bible" title="Criticism of the Bible">Criticism of the Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus" title="Chronology of Jesus">Chronology of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_harmony" title="Gospel harmony">Gospel harmony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_background_of_the_New_Testament" title="Historical background of the New Testament">Historical background of the New Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible" title="Historicity of the Bible">Historicity of the Bible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_comparative_mythology" title="Jesus in comparative mythology">Jesus in comparative mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_Seminar" title="Jesus Seminar">Jesus Seminar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Jesus_in_the_New_Testament" class="mw-redirect" title="Life of Jesus in the New Testament">Life of Jesus in the New Testament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mental_health_of_Jesus" title="Mental health of Jesus">Mental health of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Testament_places_associated_with_Jesus" title="New Testament places associated with Jesus">New Testament places associated with Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_appearance_of_Jesus" title="Race and appearance of Jesus">Race and appearance of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexuality of Jesus">Sexuality of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scholarly_interpretation_of_Gospel_elements" title="Scholarly interpretation of Gospel elements">Scholarly interpretation of Gospel elements</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Son_of_God_(TV_series)" title="Son of God (TV series)">Son of God</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity" title="Timeline of Christianity">Timeline of Christianity</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Sixteen_Crucified_Saviors" title="The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors">The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Galatians#4:4" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (American Standard)/Galatians">Galatians 4:4</a>, Paul states that Jesus was "<a href="/wiki/Incarnation_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Incarnation of Jesus">born of a woman</a>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Romans#1:3" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (American Standard)/Romans">Romans 1:3</a>, Paul states that Jesus was "<a href="/wiki/Law_of_Moses" title="Law of Moses">born under the law</a>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">That Jesus had a brother named James is corroborated by Josephus.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ehrman says, "There is historical information about Jesus in the Gospels."<sup id="cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 14">: 14 </span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-174"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-174">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Additional elements: <ul><li>Bible scholars James Beilby and Paul Eddy write that consensus is "elusive but not entirely absent".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeilbyEddy200947_171-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeilbyEddy200947-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Beilby and Eddy, "Jesus was a first-century Jew, who was baptized by John, went about teaching and preaching, had followers, was believed to be a miracle worker and exorcist, went to Jerusalem where there was an "incident", was subsequently arrested, convicted and crucified."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeilbyEddy200948–49_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeilbyEddy200948–49-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy-Jill_Levine" title="Amy-Jill Levine">Amy-Jill Levine</a> has stated that "there is a consensus of sorts on the basic outline of Jesus' life. Most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John, debated with fellow Jews on how best to live according to God’s will, engaged in healings and exorcisms, taught in parables, gathered male and female followers in Galilee, went to Jerusalem, and was crucified by Roman soldiers during the governorship of <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a> (26–36 CE)."<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </span></li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_Jesus&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCrossLivingstone2005" class="citation book cs1">Cross, Frank Leslie; Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA779"><i>The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church</i></a>. Oxford University Press. pp. 779–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280290-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-280290-3"><bdi>978-0-19-280290-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Dictionary+of+the+Christian+Church&rft.pages=779-&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-19-280290-3&rft.aulast=Cross&rft.aufirst=Frank+Leslie&rft.au=Livingstone%2C+Elizabeth+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfUqcAQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA779&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Crossley_2023-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crossley_2023_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrossley2023" class="citation book cs1">Crossley, James and Robert J. Myles (2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/jesus-life-class-conflict"><i>Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict</i></a>. Zer0 Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-80341-082-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-80341-082-1"><bdi>978-1-80341-082-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3A+A+Life+in+Class+Conflict&rft.pub=Zer0+Books&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=978-1-80341-082-1&rft.aulast=Crossley&rft.aufirst=James+and+Robert+J.+Myles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johnhuntpublishing.com%2Fzer0-books%2Four-books%2Fjesus-life-class-conflict&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Levine_1-2-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Levine_1-2_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Levine_1-2_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Amy-Jill_Levine" title="Amy-Jill Levine">Amy-Jill Levine</a> in <i>The Historical Jesus in Context</i> edited by Amy-Jill Levine et al. 2006 Princeton Univ Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-00992-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-00992-6">978-0-691-00992-6</a> pp. 1–2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman" title="Bart D. Ehrman">Ehrman, Bart D.</a> (1999), <i>Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0195124731" title="Special:BookSources/0195124731">0195124731</a> Oxford University Press pp. ix–xi</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ehrman, Bart (2003). <i>The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings.</i> New York: Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-515462-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-515462-2">0-19-515462-2</a>, chapters 13, 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Webb_2009-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Webb_2009_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Webb_2009_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWebbBock2024" class="citation book cs1">Webb, Robert; Bock, Darrell, eds. (13 March 2024). <i>Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus: A Collaborative Exploration of Context and Coherence</i>. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. pp. 1–3. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783161501449" title="Special:BookSources/9783161501449"><bdi>9783161501449</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Key+Events+in+the+Life+of+the+Historical+Jesus%3A+A+Collaborative+Exploration+of+Context+and+Coherence&rft.place=T%C3%BCbingen&rft.pages=1-3&rft.pub=Mohr+Siebeck&rft.date=2024-03-13&rft.isbn=9783161501449&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaw2011" class="citation journal cs1">Law, Stephen (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pdcnet.org/faithphil/content/faithphil_2011_0028_0002_0129_0151">"Evidence, Miracles, and the Existence of Jesus"</a>. <i>Faith and Philosophy</i>. <b>28</b> (2): 129. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5840%2Ffaithphil20112821">10.5840/faithphil20112821</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Faith+and+Philosophy&rft.atitle=Evidence%2C+Miracles%2C+and+the+Existence+of+Jesus&rft.volume=28&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=129&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.5840%2Ffaithphil20112821&rft.aulast=Law&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pdcnet.org%2Ffaithphil%2Fcontent%2Ffaithphil_2011_0028_0002_0129_0151&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ehrman285-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ehrman285_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, <a href="/wiki/Bart_Ehrman" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart Ehrman">Bart Ehrman</a> (a secular agnostic) wrote: "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees, based on certain and clear evidence." B. Ehrman, 2011 <i>Forged: writing in the name of God</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-207863-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-207863-6">978-0-06-207863-6</a>. pp. 256–257</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Price-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Price_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Price_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Price" title="Robert M. Price">Robert M. Price</a> (an atheist who denies the existence of Jesus) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in <i>The Historical Jesus: Five Views</i> edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/028106329X" title="Special:BookSources/028106329X">028106329X</a> p. 61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GrantMajority-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GrantMajority_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Grant_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Grant (author)">Michael Grant</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Classicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Classicist">classicist</a>) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non-historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary." in <i>Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels</i> by Michael Grant (2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1898799881" title="Special:BookSources/1898799881">1898799881</a> p. 200</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurridgeGould2004">Burridge & Gould 2004</a>, p. 34. "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that anymore."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JDunn339-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-JDunn339_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-JDunn339_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-JDunn339_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus Remembered</i> by James D. G. Dunn 2003 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-3931-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-3931-2">0-8028-3931-2</a> p. 339 states of baptism and crucifixion that these "two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hertzog1-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hertzog1_13-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus</i> by William R. Herzog (2005) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0664225284" title="Special:BookSources/0664225284">0664225284</a> pp. 1–6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Crossan145-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Crossan145_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crossan145_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Crossan145_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrossan1995" class="citation book cs1">Crossan, John Dominic (1995). <i>Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography</i>. HarperOne. p. 145. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-061662-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-061662-5"><bdi>978-0-06-061662-5</bdi></a>. <q>That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus ... agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3A+A+Revolutionary+Biography&rft.pages=145&rft.pub=HarperOne&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=978-0-06-061662-5&rft.aulast=Crossan&rft.aufirst=John+Dominic&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MAPowell168-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MAPowell168_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPowell1998" class="citation book cs1">Powell, Mark Allan (1998). <i>Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee</i>. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 168–173. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-664-25703-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-664-25703-3"><bdi>978-0-664-25703-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+as+a+Figure+in+History%3A+How+Modern+Historians+View+the+Man+from+Galilee&rft.pages=168-173&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-664-25703-3&rft.aulast=Powell&rft.aufirst=Mark+Allan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Van_Voorst-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Van_Voorst_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Van_Voorst_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Voorst, Robert E. (2000). <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9">0-8028-4368-9</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Camber121-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Camber121_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Camber121_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBockmuehl2001" class="citation book cs1">Bockmuehl, Markus N. A. (2001). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00bock_574"><i>The Cambridge Companion to Jesus</i></a></span>. Cambridge University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00bock_574/page/n138">121</a>–125. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521796781" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521796781"><bdi>978-0521796781</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Jesus&rft.pages=121-125&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0521796781&rft.aulast=Bockmuehl&rft.aufirst=Markus+N.+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcambridgecompani00bock_574&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chil460-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Chil460_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Chil460_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChiltonEvans1998" class="citation book cs1">Chilton, Bruce; Evans, Craig A. (1998). <i>Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research</i>. BRILL. pp. 460–470. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9004111424" title="Special:BookSources/978-9004111424"><bdi>978-9004111424</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Studying+the+Historical+Jesus%3A+Evaluations+of+the+State+of+Current+Research&rft.pages=460-470&rft.pub=BRILL&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-9004111424&rft.aulast=Chilton&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft.au=Evans%2C+Craig+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitherington_III19979–13_19-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWitherington_III1997">Witherington III 1997</a>, pp. 9–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AlanP19-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AlanP19_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AlanP19_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee</i> by Mark Allan Powell, Westminster John Knox Press (1999) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0664257038" title="Special:BookSources/0664257038">0664257038</a> pp. 19–23</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sanders93-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sanders93_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sanders93_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sanders93_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sanders, E. P. <i>The historical figure of Jesus</i>. Penguin, 1993.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTheissenMerz1998">Theissen & Merz 1998</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20025_23-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTheissenWinter2002">Theissen & Winter 2002</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cradel124-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cradel124_24-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament</i> by Andreas J. Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum 2009 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3">978-0-8054-4365-3</a> pp. 124–125</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CambHist23-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CambHist23_25-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMitchellYoung2006" class="citation book cs1">Mitchell, Margaret M.; Young, Frances M., eds. (2006). <i>The Cambridge History of Christianity</i>. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-81239-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-81239-9"><bdi>978-0-521-81239-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Christianity&rft.pages=23&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-521-81239-9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PBS-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PBS_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PBS_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPelikan" class="citation web cs1">Pelikan, Jaroslav. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/rabbi.html">"Jesus as Rabbi"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 March</span> 2020</span>. <q>four Aramaic words appear as titles for Jesus: Rabbi, or teacher; Amen, or prophet; Messias, or Christ; and Mar, or Lord</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=PBS&rft.atitle=Jesus+as+Rabbi&rft.aulast=Pelikan&rft.aufirst=Jaroslav&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fpages%2Ffrontline%2Fshows%2Freligion%2Fjesus%2Frabbi.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Köstenberger-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Köstenberger_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Köstenberger_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKöstenberger1998" class="citation journal cs1">Köstenberger, Andreas (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5325%2Fbullbiblrese.8.1.0097">"Jesus as Rabbi in the Fourth Gospel"</a>. <i>Bulletin for Biblical Research</i>. <b>8</b>: 97–128. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5325%2Fbullbiblrese.8.1.0097">10.5325/bullbiblrese.8.1.0097</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26422158">26422158</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:203287514">203287514</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+for+Biblical+Research&rft.atitle=Jesus+as+Rabbi+in+the+Fourth+Gospel&rft.volume=8&rft.pages=97-128&rft.date=1998&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A203287514%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26422158%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.5325%2Fbullbiblrese.8.1.0097&rft.aulast=K%C3%B6stenberger&rft.aufirst=Andreas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5325%252Fbullbiblrese.8.1.0097&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Charlesworth2-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Charlesworth2_28-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCharlesworthPokorny2009" class="citation book cs1">Charlesworth, James H.; Pokorny, Petr, eds. (2009). <i>Jesus Research: An International Perspective (Princeton–Prague Symposia Series on the Historical Jesus)</i>. Wm. B. Eerdmans. pp. 1–2. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-6353-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-6353-9"><bdi>978-0-8028-6353-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+Research%3A+An+International+Perspective+%28Princeton%E2%80%93Prague+Symposia+Series+on+the+Historical+Jesus%29&rft.pages=1-2&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-8028-6353-9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Porter74-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Porter74_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Porter74_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Porter74_29-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPorterHayesTombs2004" class="citation book cs1">Porter, Stanley E.; Hayes, Michael A.; Tombs, David (2004). <i>Images of Christ (Academic Paperback)</i>. <a href="/wiki/T%26T_Clark" title="T&T Clark">T&T Clark</a>. p. 74. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-567-04460-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-567-04460-0"><bdi>978-0-567-04460-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Images+of+Christ+%28Academic+Paperback%29&rft.pages=74&rft.pub=T%26T+Clark&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-567-04460-0&rft.aulast=Porter&rft.aufirst=Stanley+E.&rft.au=Hayes%2C+Michael+A.&rft.au=Tombs%2C+David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-familiar20-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-familiar20_30-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcClymond2004" class="citation book cs1">McClymond, Michael James (2004). <i>Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth</i>. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 16–22. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-2680-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-2680-0"><bdi>978-0-8028-2680-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Familiar+Stranger%3A+An+Introduction+to+Jesus+of+Nazareth&rft.pages=16-22&rft.pub=William+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing+Company&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-8028-2680-0&rft.aulast=McClymond&rft.aufirst=Michael+James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus Now and Then</i> by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould (2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802809774" title="Special:BookSources/0802809774">0802809774</a> p. 34</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGrant1992" class="citation book cs1">Grant, Michael (1992) [1977]. <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jesushistorians000gran"><i>Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels</i></a></span> (1st Collier Books ed.). New York: Collier Books. p. 208. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0020852517" title="Special:BookSources/0020852517"><bdi>0020852517</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/25833417">25833417</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3A+An+Historian%27s+Review+of+the+Gospels&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=208&rft.edition=1st+Collier+Books&rft.pub=Collier+Books&rft.date=1992&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F25833417&rft.isbn=0020852517&rft.aulast=Grant&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjesushistorians000gran&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rahner730-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rahner730_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Encyclopedia of theology: a concise Sacramentum mundi</i> by Karl Rahner 2004 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0860120066" title="Special:BookSources/0860120066">0860120066</a> pp. 730–731</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-voorst15-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-voorst15_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Voorst, Robert E (2000). <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence</i>. Eerdmans Publishing. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802843689" title="Special:BookSources/0802843689">0802843689</a> p. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mythicists-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mythicists_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_F._McGrath" class="citation web cs1">James F. McGrath, James F. McGrath. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2011-10/fringe-view">"Fringe view: The world of Jesus mythicism..."</a> <i>The Christian Century</i>. Christian Century<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 September</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Christian+Century&rft.atitle=Fringe+view%3A+The+world+of+Jesus+mythicism...&rft.aulast=James+F.+McGrath&rft.aufirst=James+F.+McGrath&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christiancentury.org%2Farticle%2F2011-10%2Ffringe-view&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eddy_&_Boyd-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eddy_&_Boyd_36-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEddyBoyd2007" class="citation book cs1">Eddy, Paul Rhodes; Boyd, Gregory A. (2007). <i>The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic</i>. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0801031144" title="Special:BookSources/978-0801031144"><bdi>978-0801031144</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jesus+Legend%3A+A+Case+for+the+Historical+Reliability+of+the+Synoptic&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=Baker+Academic&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0801031144&rft.aulast=Eddy&rft.aufirst=Paul+Rhodes&rft.au=Boyd%2C+Gregory+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sykes" title="Stephen Sykes">Sykes, Stephen W.</a> (2007). "Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus". Sacrifice and Redemption. Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–36. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521044608" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521044608">978-0521044608</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTheissenMerz1996" class="citation book cs1">Theissen, Gerd; Merz, Annette (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GZsPnwEACAAJ"><i>The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide</i></a>. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. p. 25. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0800631222" title="Special:BookSources/978-0800631222"><bdi>978-0800631222</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus%3A+A+Comprehensive+Guide&rft.place=Minneapolis%2C+Minnesota&rft.pages=25&rft.pub=Fortress+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0800631222&rft.aulast=Theissen&rft.aufirst=Gerd&rft.au=Merz%2C+Annette&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGZsPnwEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)">Did Jesus exist?</a>, Bart Ehrman, 2012, Chapter 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Voorst 2000, p. 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stanton145-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stanton145_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Gospels and Jesus</i> by <a href="/wiki/Graham_Stanton" title="Graham Stanton">Graham Stanton</a>, 1989 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0192132415" title="Special:BookSources/0192132415">0192132415</a> Oxford University Press, p. 145:</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bart_Ehrman_Jesus_42-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrman2012" class="citation book cs1">Ehrman, Bart (2012). <i>Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth</i>. New York: HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0062206442" title="Special:BookSources/978-0062206442"><bdi>978-0062206442</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Did+Jesus+Exist%3F%3A+The+Historical+Argument+for+Jesus+of+Nazareth&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0062206442&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bart_Ehrman" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart Ehrman">Bart Ehrman</a>, <i>Did Jesus Exist?</i> Harper Collins, 2012, p. 12, "Earl Doherty defines the view...In simpler terms, the historical Jesus did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity." Further quoting as representative the fuller definition provided by Doherty in <i>Jesus: Neither God Nor Man.</i> Age of Reason, 2009, pp. vii–viii: it is "the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed, that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the gospels are essentially allegory and fiction, and that no single identifiable person lay at the root of the Galilean preaching tradition."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichard_Dawkins2007" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> (2007). <a href="/wiki/The_God_Delusion" title="The God Delusion"><i>The God Delusion</i></a>. Lulu.com. p. 122. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1430312307" title="Special:BookSources/978-1430312307"><bdi>978-1430312307</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+God+Delusion&rft.pages=122&rft.pub=Lulu.com&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1430312307&rft.au=Richard+Dawkins&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/God_is_Not_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="God is Not Great">God is Not Great</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a>, 2007, Chapter 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David" <a href="/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson" title="Thomas L. Thompson">Thomas L. Thompson</a> Basic Book Perseus Books' 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Jesus Outside the New Testament" Robert E. Van Voorst, 2000, pp. 8–9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Price, Robert M. (2009). "Jesus at the Vanishing Point". In Beilby, James K.; Eddy, Paul R. (eds.). The Historical Jesus: Five Views. InterVarsity Press. pp. 55–83. ISBN 978-0-8308-3868-4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurridgeGould200434_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurridgeGould2004">Burridge & Gould 2004</a>, p. 34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-voorst16-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-voorst16_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Van_Voorst" title="Robert E. Van Voorst">Robert E. Van Voorst</a> <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence</i> Eerdmans Publishing, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802843689" title="Special:BookSources/0802843689">0802843689</a> p.16 states: "biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DunnPaul35-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DunnPaul35_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/James_D._G._Dunn" class="mw-redirect" title="James D. G. Dunn">James D. G. Dunn</a> "Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus" in <i>Sacrifice and Redemption</i> edited by S. W. Sykes (2007) Cambridge University Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/052104460X" title="Special:BookSources/052104460X">052104460X</a> pp. 35–36 states that the theories of the non-existence of Jesus are "a thoroughly dead thesis"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in <i>The Historical Jesus: Five Views</i> edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/028106329X" title="Special:BookSources/028106329X">028106329X</a> p. 61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTheissenMerz1996" class="citation book cs1">Theissen, Gerd; Merz, Annette (1996). <i>The Historical Jesus</i>. Minneapolis MN: Fortress Press. pp. 17–62. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8006-3122-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8006-3122-2"><bdi>978-0-8006-3122-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus&rft.place=Minneapolis+MN&rft.pages=17-62&rft.pub=Fortress+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-8006-3122-2&rft.aulast=Theissen&rft.aufirst=Gerd&rft.au=Merz%2C+Annette&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Adams94-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Adams94_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Edward Adams in <i>The Cambridge Companion to Jesus</i> by Markus N. A. Bockmuehl 2001 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521796784" title="Special:BookSources/0521796784">0521796784</a> pp. 94–96.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEddyBoyd2007" class="citation book cs1">Eddy, Paul Rhodes; Boyd, Gregory A. (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WgROZMp4zDMC&pg=PA202"><i>The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition</i></a>. Baker Academic. p. 202. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-3114-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-3114-4"><bdi>978-0-8010-3114-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jesus+Legend%3A+A+Case+for+the+Historical+Reliability+of+the+Synoptic+Jesus+Tradition&rft.pages=202&rft.pub=Baker+Academic&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-8010-3114-4&rft.aulast=Eddy&rft.aufirst=Paul+Rhodes&rft.au=Boyd%2C+Gregory+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWgROZMp4zDMC%26pg%3DPA202&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tuckett126-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Tuckett126_57-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTuckett2001" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_M._Tuckett" title="Christopher M. Tuckett">Tuckett, Christopher M.</a> (2001). Markus N. A. Bockmuehl (ed.). <i>The Cambridge Companion to Jesus</i>. Cambridge University Press. pp. 122–126. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521796781" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521796781"><bdi>978-0521796781</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Jesus&rft.pages=122-126&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0521796781&rft.aulast=Tuckett&rft.aufirst=Christopher+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JRDunn143-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-JRDunn143_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making</i> by James D. G. Dunn (2003) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0802839312" title="Special:BookSources/0802839312">0802839312</a> p. 143</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McK38-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McK38_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus Christ in History and Scripture</i> by Edgar V. McKnight 1999 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0865546770" title="Special:BookSources/0865546770">0865546770</a> p. 38</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Furnish19-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Furnish19_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus according to Paul</i> by Victor Paul Furnish 1994 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521458242" title="Special:BookSources/0521458242">0521458242</a> pp. 19–20</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(American_Standard)/Galatians#1:19" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (American Standard)/Galatians">Galatians 1:19</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMurphy2007" class="citation book cs1">Murphy, Caherine M. (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historicaljesusf00cath/page/140"><i>The Historical Jesus For Dummies</i></a>. For Dummies. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historicaljesusf00cath/page/140">140</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0470167854" title="Special:BookSources/978-0470167854"><bdi>978-0470167854</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus+For+Dummies&rft.pages=140&rft.pub=For+Dummies&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0470167854&rft.aulast=Murphy&rft.aufirst=Caherine+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoricaljesusf00cath%2Fpage%2F140&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEEhrman2012144–146-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEhrman2012144–146_65-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEhrman2012">Ehrman 2012</a>, pp. 144–146.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEvans2016" class="citation journal cs1">Evans, Craig (2016). "Mythicism and the Public Jesus of History". <i>Christian Research Journal</i>. <b>39</b> (5).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Christian+Research+Journal&rft.atitle=Mythicism+and+the+Public+Jesus+of+History.&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=5&rft.date=2016&rft.aulast=Evans&rft.aufirst=Craig&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLongenecker2020" class="citation book cs1">Longenecker, Bruce, ed. (2020). <i>The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul</i>. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1108438285" title="Special:BookSources/978-1108438285"><bdi>978-1108438285</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+Cambridge+Companion+to+St.+Paul&rft.pages=23&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=978-1108438285&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey</i> by Craig L. Blomberg 2009 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0805444823" title="Special:BookSources/0805444823">0805444823</a> pp. 441–442</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jesus">"Jesus Christ"</a>. <i>Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 November</span> 2010</span>. <q>The Synoptic Gospels, then, are the primary sources for knowledge of the historical Jesus</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Jesus+Christ&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica.+2010.+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica+Online&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FJesus&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Vermes-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Vermes_70-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vermes, Geza. The authentic gospel of Jesus. London, Penguin Books. 2004.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/8?43">"Luke, Chapter 8 | USCCB"</a>. <i>bible.usccb.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=bible.usccb.org&rft.atitle=Luke%2C+Chapter+8+%26%23124%3B+USCCB&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbible.usccb.org%2Fbible%2Fluke%2F8%3F43&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/14?36=">"Matthew, Chapter 14 | USCCB"</a>. <i>bible.usccb.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=bible.usccb.org&rft.atitle=Matthew%2C+Chapter+14+%26%23124%3B+USCCB&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbible.usccb.org%2Fbible%2Fmatthew%2F14%3F36%3D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Allan Powell (editor), <i>The New Testament Today</i>, p. 50 (Westminster John Knox Press, 1999). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-25824-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-25824-7">0-664-25824-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stanley E. Porter (editor), <i>Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament</i>, p. 68 (Leiden, 1997). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-09921-2" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-09921-2">90-04-09921-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrossleyMyles2023">Crossley & Myles 2023</a>, p. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">"Historical Criticism". <i>The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus</i>. Routledge. 2008. p. 283. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780415880886" title="Special:BookSources/9780415880886"><bdi>9780415880886</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Historical+Criticism&rft.btitle=The+Routledge+Encyclopedia+of+the+Historical+Jesus&rft.pages=283&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=9780415880886&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaviesSanders2008" class="citation book cs1">Davies, W. D.; Sanders, E.P. (2008). "20. Jesus: From the Jewish Point of View". In Horbury, William; Davies, W.D.; Sturdy, John (eds.). <i>The Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume 3: The Early Roman period</i>. Cambridge Univiversity Press. p. 620. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521243773" title="Special:BookSources/9780521243773"><bdi>9780521243773</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=20.+Jesus%3A+From+the+Jewish+Point+of+View&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Judaism.+Volume+3%3A+The+Early+Roman+period&rft.pages=620&rft.pub=Cambridge+Univiversity+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=9780521243773&rft.aulast=Davies&rft.aufirst=W.+D.&rft.au=Sanders%2C+E.P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTheissenMerz" class="citation book cs1">Theissen, Gerd; Merz, Annette. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZU97DQMH6UC"><i>The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide</i></a>. Fortress Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4514-0863-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4514-0863-8"><bdi>978-1-4514-0863-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus%3A+A+Comprehensive+Guide&rft.pub=Fortress+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-4514-0863-8&rft.aulast=Theissen&rft.aufirst=Gerd&rft.au=Merz%2C+Annette&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3ZU97DQMH6UC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen2013" class="citation book cs1">Green, Joel B. (2013). <i>Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels</i> (2nd ed.). IVP Academic. p. 541. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0830824564" title="Special:BookSources/978-0830824564"><bdi>978-0830824564</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Jesus+and+the+Gospels&rft.pages=541&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=IVP+Academic&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0830824564&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Joel+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Blomberg431-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Blomberg431_81-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Blomberg431_81-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey</i> by Craig L. Blomberg 2009 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8054-4482-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8054-4482-3">0-8054-4482-3</a> pp. 431–436</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Frederick_Fyvie_Bruce-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Frederick_Fyvie_Bruce_82-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBruce1974" class="citation book cs1">Bruce, Frederick Fyvie (1974). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jesuschristianor0000bruc"><i>Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament</i></a></span>. London: Hodder and Stoughton. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-80281-575-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-80281-575-0"><bdi>978-0-80281-575-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+and+Christian+Origins+Outside+the+New+Testament&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Hodder+and+Stoughton&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=978-0-80281-575-0&rft.aulast=Bruce&rft.aufirst=Frederick+Fyvie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjesuschristianor0000bruc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VVoorst39-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VVoorst39_83-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert E. Van Voorst, <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence</i>, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000. pp. 39–53</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchreckenbergKurt_Schubert1992" class="citation book cs1">Schreckenberg, Heinz; Kurt Schubert (1992). <i>Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-232-2653-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-232-2653-6"><bdi>978-90-232-2653-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jewish+Traditions+in+Early+Christian+Literature&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-90-232-2653-6&rft.aulast=Schreckenberg&rft.aufirst=Heinz&rft.au=Kurt+Schubert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKostenbergerL._Scott_KellumCharles_L._Quarles2009" class="citation book cs1">Kostenberger, Andreas J.; L. Scott Kellum; Charles L. Quarles (2009). <i>The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament</i>. B&H Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3"><bdi>978-0-8054-4365-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cradle%2C+the+Cross%2C+and+the+Crown%3A+An+Introduction+to+the+New+Testament&rft.pub=B%26H+Publishing&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-8054-4365-3&rft.aulast=Kostenberger&rft.aufirst=Andreas+J.&rft.au=L.+Scott+Kellum&rft.au=Charles+L.+Quarles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JospehusM662-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-JospehusM662_86-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The new complete works of Josephus</i> by Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, Paul L. Maier <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8254-2924-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8254-2924-2">0-8254-2924-2</a> pp. 662–663</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Josephus XX</i> by <a href="/wiki/Louis_H._Feldman" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis H. Feldman">Louis H. Feldman</a> 1965, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674995023" title="Special:BookSources/0674995023">0674995023</a> p. 496</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Voorst, Robert E. (2000). <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9">0-8028-4368-9</a>. p. 83</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Flavius Josephus; Maier, Paul L. (December 1995). <i>Josephus, the essential works: a condensation of Jewish antiquities and The Jewish war</i> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8254-3260-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8254-3260-6">978-0-8254-3260-6</a> pp. 284–285</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/P._E._Easterling" title="P. E. Easterling">P. E. Easterling</a>, <a href="/wiki/E._J._Kenney" title="E. J. Kenney">E. J. Kenney</a> (general editors), <i>The Cambridge History of Latin Literature</i>, p. 892 (Cambridge University Press, 1982, reprinted 1996). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-21043-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-21043-7">0-521-21043-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTuckett2001" class="citation book cs1">Tuckett, Christopher (2001). "8. Sources and Methods". <i>The Cambridge Companion to Jesus</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 123. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521796781" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521796781"><bdi>978-0521796781</bdi></a>. <q>Tacitus' reference to Jesus is extremely brief, but it shows no evidence of later Christian influence and hence is widely accepted as genuine. It does then provide independent, non-Christian evidence at least for Jesus' existence and his execution under Pilate.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=8.+Sources+and+Methods&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Jesus&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=123&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0521796781&rft.aulast=Tuckett&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EddyB127-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EddyB127_92-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EddyB127_92-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEddyBoyd2007" class="citation book cs1">Eddy; Boyd (2007). <i>The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition</i>. Baker Academic. p. 127. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-3114-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-3114-4"><bdi>978-0-8010-3114-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jesus+Legend%3A+A+Case+for+the+Historical+Reliability+of+the+Synoptic+Jesus+Tradition&rft.pages=127&rft.pub=Baker+Academic&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-8010-3114-4&rft.au=Eddy&rft.au=Boyd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaier1978" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Maier, Johann (1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TbkPAQAAIAAJ"><i>Jesus von Nazareth in der talmudischen Überlieferung</i></a> (in German). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, [Abt. Verlag]. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-534-04901-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-534-04901-1"><bdi>978-3-534-04901-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+von+Nazareth+in+der+talmudischen+%C3%9Cberlieferung&rft.pub=Wissenschaftliche+Buchgesellschaft%2C+%5BAbt.+Verlag%5D&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=978-3-534-04901-1&rft.aulast=Maier&rft.aufirst=Johann&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTbkPAQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavidson" class="citation web cs1">Davidson, William. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.43a">"Sanhedrin 43a"</a>. <i>sefaria.org</i>. <a href="/wiki/Sefaria" title="Sefaria">Sefaria</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 May</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sefaria.org&rft.atitle=Sanhedrin+43a&rft.aulast=Davidson&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sefaria.org%2FSanhedrin.43a&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz199876-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz199876_95-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTheissenMerz1998">Theissen & Merz 1998</a>, p. 76.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VVoorst53-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-VVoorst53_96-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus outside the New Testament: an introduction to the ancient evidence</i> by Robert E. Van Voorst 2000 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9">0-8028-4368-9</a> pp. 53–55</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Evans41-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Evans41_97-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies</i> by Craig A. Evans 2001 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-391-04118-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-391-04118-9">978-0-391-04118-9</a> p. 41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Handbook,_78-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Handbook,_78_98-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSoulenSoulen,_R._Kendall2001" class="citation book cs1">Soulen, Richard N.; Soulen, R. Kendall (2001). <i>Handbook of biblical criticism</i> (3rd., rev. and expanded ed.). Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press. p. 78. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22314-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22314-4"><bdi>978-0-664-22314-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Handbook+of+biblical+criticism&rft.place=Louisville%2C+Ky.&rft.pages=78&rft.edition=3rd.%2C+rev.+and+expanded&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-664-22314-4&rft.aulast=Soulen&rft.aufirst=Richard+N.&rft.au=Soulen%2C+R.+Kendall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrmanEvansStewart2020" class="citation book cs1">Ehrman, Bart D.; Evans, Craig A.; Stewart, Robert B. (2020). <i>Can we trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?</i>. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 12–18. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780664265854" title="Special:BookSources/9780664265854"><bdi>9780664265854</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Can+we+trust+the+Bible+on+the+Historical+Jesus%3F&rft.pages=12-18&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=9780664265854&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart+D.&rft.au=Evans%2C+Craig+A.&rft.au=Stewart%2C+Robert+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrmanEvansStewart2020" class="citation book cs1">Ehrman, Bart D.; Evans, Craig A.; Stewart, Robert B. (2020). <i>Can we trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?</i>. Westminster John Knox Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780664265854" title="Special:BookSources/9780664265854"><bdi>9780664265854</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Can+we+trust+the+Bible+on+the+Historical+Jesus%3F&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=9780664265854&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart+D.&rft.au=Evans%2C+Craig+A.&rft.au=Stewart%2C+Robert+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Craig Evans, "Life-of-Jesus Research and the Eclipse of Mythology," Theological Studies 54 (1993) p. 13-14 "First, the New Testament Gospels are now viewed as useful, if not essentially reliable, historical sources. Gone is the extreme skepticism that for so many years dominated gospel research. Representative of many is the position of E. P. Sanders and Marcus Borg, who have concluded that it is possible to recover a fairly reliable picture of the historical Jesus."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jesus_1995-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jesus_1995_102-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">“The Historical Figure of Jesus," Sanders, E.P., Penguin Books: London, 1995, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceC-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceC_103-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word (Vol. II): Meditations on the Gospel According to St. Matthew – Dr Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Ignatius Press, Introduction</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-religion-online.org-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-religion-online.org_104-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGrant" class="citation web cs1">Grant, Robert M. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100621102923/http://religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1116&C=1230">"A Historical Introduction to the New Testament (Harper and Row, 1963)"</a>. <i>Religion-Online.org</i>. 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IVP Academic. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780830828074" title="Special:BookSources/9780830828074"><bdi>9780830828074</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Reliability+of+the+Gospels&rft.edition=2.&rft.pub=IVP+Academic&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9780830828074&rft.aulast=Blomberg&rft.aufirst=Craig+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrman2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman" title="Bart D. Ehrman">Ehrman, Bart D.</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Prof.BartEhrman-MisquotingJesus/page/n99/"><i>Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Harper_San_Francisco" class="mw-redirect" title="Harper San Francisco">Harper San Francisco</a>. pp. 89–90.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Misquoting+Jesus%3A+The+Story+Behind+Who+Changed+the+Bible+and+Why&rft.pages=89-90&rft.pub=Harper+San+Francisco&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FProf.BartEhrman-MisquotingJesus%2Fpage%2Fn99%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rhodes-Eddy08-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rhodes-Eddy08_107-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Paul Rhodes Eddy & Gregory A. Boyd, <i>The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition.</i> (2008, Baker Academic). 309-262.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (September 2022)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021–6-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenWinter20021–6_108-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTheissenWinter2002">Theissen & Winter 2002</a>, pp. 1–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-criteria100-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-criteria100_109-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-criteria100_109-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-criteria100_109-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-criteria100_109-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Criteria for Authenticity in Historical–Jesus Research</i> by Stanley E. Porter 2004 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0567043606" title="Special:BookSources/0567043606">0567043606</a> pp. 100–120</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFerda2024" class="citation book cs1">Ferda, Tucker (2024). <i>Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins</i>. 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Porter (2011) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9004163727" title="Special:BookSources/9004163727">9004163727</a> pp. 986–1002</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Meier124-149"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Meier124_149-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_P._Meier" title="John P. Meier">John P. Meier</a> "Criteria: How do we decide what comes from Jesus?" in <i>The Historical Jesus in Recent Research</i> by James D. G. 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Watts 1999 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0664258425" title="Special:BookSources/0664258425">0664258425</a> pp. 31–32</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Casey35-157"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Casey35_157-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching</i> by Maurice Casey 2010 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-567-64517-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-567-64517-7">0-567-64517-7</a> p. 35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Murphy29-158"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Murphy29_158-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Murphy29_158-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>John the Baptist: prophet of purity for a new age</i> by Catherine M. 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Evans 2001 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-391-04118-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-391-04118-5">0-391-04118-5</a> p. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-160"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-160">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity</i> by Delbert Royce Burkett 2002 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-00720-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-00720-8">0-521-00720-8</a> pp. 247–248</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-161"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-161">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Who is Jesus?</i> by Thomas P. 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Dapaah 2005 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7618-3109-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-7618-3109-6">0-7618-3109-6</a> p. 91</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-JMeier126-163"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-JMeier126_163-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-JMeier126_163-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-JMeier126_163-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">John P. Meier "How do we decide what comes from Jesus" in <i>The Historical Jesus in Recent Research</i> by James D. G. 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(2008). <i>A Brief Introduction to the New Testament</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-536934-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-536934-3">0-19-536934-3</a> p. 136</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ernest125-166"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ernest125_166-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ernest125_166-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902–2002</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Nicholson" title="Ernest Nicholson">Ernest Nicholson</a> 2004 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-726305-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-726305-4">0-19-726305-4</a> pp. 125–126</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-167"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-167">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCasey2010" class="citation book cs1">Casey, Maurice (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lXK0auknD0YC&q=Predicted"><i>Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching</i></a>. 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(1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zODYAAAAMAAJ"><i>A Marginal Jew: The roots of the problem and the person</i></a>. Doubleday. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-26425-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-26425-9"><bdi>978-0-385-26425-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Marginal+Jew%3A+The+roots+of+the+problem+and+the+person&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=978-0-385-26425-9&rft.aulast=Meier&rft.aufirst=John+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzODYAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-169"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-169">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFErhman1999" class="citation book cs1">Erhman, Bart (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vzszmQEACAAJ"><i>Jesus:the apocalyptic prophet of the new millenium</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. 222. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195124743" title="Special:BookSources/9780195124743"><bdi>9780195124743</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3Athe+apocalyptic+prophet+of+the+new+millenium&rft.pages=222&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=9780195124743&rft.aulast=Erhman&rft.aufirst=Bart&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvzszmQEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Evans37-170"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Evans37_170-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Evans37_170-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Evans37_170-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Evans37_170-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChiltonEvans2002" class="citation book cs1">Chilton, Bruce D.; Evans, Craig A. (2002). <i>Authenticating the Activities of Jesus</i>. 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(1989). <i>Chronos, Kairos, Christos</i>. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. pp. 113–129. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-931464-50-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-931464-50-1"><bdi>0-931464-50-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chronos%2C+Kairos%2C+Christos&rft.place=Winona+Lake%2C+IN&rft.pages=113-129&rft.pub=Eisenbrauns&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-931464-50-1&rft.aulast=Vardaman&rft.aufirst=Jerry&rft.au=Yamauchi%2C+Edwin+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKöstenbergerKellumQuarles2009" class="citation book cs1">Köstenberger, Andreas J.; Kellum, Leonard Scott; Quarles, Charles Leland (2009). <i>The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament</i>. B&H. p. 114. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-4365-3"><bdi>978-0-8054-4365-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cradle%2C+the+Cross%2C+and+the+Crown%3A+An+Introduction+to+the+New+Testament&rft.pages=114&rft.pub=B%26H&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-8054-4365-3&rft.aulast=K%C3%B6stenberger&rft.aufirst=Andreas+J.&rft.au=Kellum%2C+Leonard+Scott&rft.au=Quarles%2C+Charles+Leland&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Geoffrey Blainey; <i><a href="/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Christianity" title="A Short History of Christianity">A Short History of Christianity</a></i>; Viking; 2011; p. 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Green, Joel B.; McKnight, Scot; Marshall, I. Howard (1992), <i>Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels</i>. InterVarsity Press. p. 442</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dunn303-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dunn303_179-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDunnMcKnight2005" class="citation book cs1">Dunn, James D. G.; McKnight, Scot, eds. (2005). <i>The Historical Jesus in Recent Research</i>. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. p. 303. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57506-100-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-57506-100-7"><bdi>1-57506-100-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus+in+Recent+Research&rft.place=Winona+Lake%2C+IN&rft.pages=303&rft.pub=Eisenbrauns&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=1-57506-100-7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrossanWatts1999" class="citation book cs1">Crossan, John Dominic; Watts, Richard G. (1999). <i>Who is Jesus?</i>. Westminster John Knox. pp. 28–29. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-25842-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-25842-5"><bdi>0-664-25842-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Who+is+Jesus%3F&rft.pages=28-29&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0-664-25842-5&rft.aulast=Crossan&rft.aufirst=John+Dominic&rft.au=Watts%2C+Richard+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Voorst117118-181"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Voorst117118_181-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Voorst117118_181-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVoorst2000" class="citation book cs1">Voorst, Robert Van (2000). <i>Jesus Outside the New Testament</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. pp. 117–118. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4368-9"><bdi>0-8028-4368-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+Outside+the+New+Testament&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+MI&rft.pages=117-118&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0-8028-4368-9&rft.aulast=Voorst&rft.aufirst=Robert+Van&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKostenbergerKellumQuarles2009107–109-182"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKostenbergerKellumQuarles2009107–109_182-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKostenbergerKellumQuarles2009">Kostenberger, Kellum & Quarles 2009</a>, pp. 107–109.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Redford32-183"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Redford32_183-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Redford32_183-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Life and Ministry of Jesus</i> by Douglas Redford 2007 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7847-1900-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-7847-1900-4">0-7847-1900-4</a> p. 32</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKeener2012" class="citation book cs1">Keener, Craig S. (2012). <i>The Historical Jesus of the Gospels</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-6888-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8028-6888-6"><bdi>978-0-8028-6888-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus+of+the+Gospels&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+MI&rft.pub=Wm.+B.+Eerdmans&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-8028-6888-6&rft.aulast=Keener&rft.aufirst=Craig+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span> 182</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998165"Our_conclusion_must_be_that_Jesus_came_from_Nazareth."-185"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETheissenMerz1998165"Our_conclusion_must_be_that_Jesus_came_from_Nazareth."_185-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTheissenMerz1998">Theissen & Merz 1998</a>, p. 165, "Our conclusion must be that Jesus came from Nazareth.".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BarrLang-186"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BarrLang_186-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BarrLang_186-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/James_Barr_(biblical_scholar)" title="James Barr (biblical scholar)">James Barr</a>, <i>Which language did Jesus speak</i>, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1970; 53(1) pp. 9–29 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:1m2973">[1]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181203184449/https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:1m2973">Archived</a> 2018-12-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Porter110-187"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Porter110_187-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Porter110_187-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPorter1997" class="citation book cs1">Porter, Stanley E. (1997). <i>Handbook to exegesis of the New Testament</i>. Leiden: Brill. pp. 110–112. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-09921-2" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-09921-2"><bdi>90-04-09921-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Handbook+to+exegesis+of+the+New+Testament&rft.place=Leiden&rft.pages=110-112&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=90-04-09921-2&rft.aulast=Porter&rft.aufirst=Stanley+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-188">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoffmannLarue1986" class="citation book cs1">Hoffmann, R. Joseph; Larue, Gerald A. (1986). <i>Jesus in History and Myth</i>. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus. p. 98. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87975-332-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-87975-332-3"><bdi>0-87975-332-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+in+History+and+Myth&rft.place=Buffalo%2C+NY&rft.pages=98&rft.pub=Prometheus&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=0-87975-332-3&rft.aulast=Hoffmann&rft.aufirst=R.+Joseph&rft.au=Larue%2C+Gerald+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-189"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-189">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/James_Barr_(biblical_scholar)" title="James Barr (biblical scholar)">James Barr</a>'s review article <i>Which language did Jesus speak</i> (referenced above) states that Aramaic has the widest support among scholars.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MAPowell117-190"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MAPowell117_190-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MAPowell117_190-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPowell1998" class="citation book cs1">Powell, Mark Allan (1998). <i>Jesus as a Figure in History</i>. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox. p. 117. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-664-25703-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-664-25703-8"><bdi>0-664-25703-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+as+a+Figure+in+History&rft.place=Louisville%2C+KY&rft.pages=117&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=0-664-25703-8&rft.aulast=Powell&rft.aufirst=Mark+Allan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrossleyMyles2023">Crossley & Myles 2023</a>, p. 75</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEvans2003" class="citation book cs1">Evans, Craig A. (2003). <i>Jesus and the Ossuaries</i>. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-918954-88-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-918954-88-6"><bdi>0-918954-88-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+and+the+Ossuaries&rft.place=Waco%2C+TX&rft.pub=Baylor+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-918954-88-6&rft.aulast=Evans&rft.aufirst=Craig+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECrossleyMyles2023-193"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrossleyMyles2023_193-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrossleyMyles2023">Crossley & Myles 2023</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lion40-194"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-lion40_194-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKöstenbergerKellumQuarles2012" class="citation book cs1">Köstenberger, Andreas J.; Kellum, Leonard Scott; Quarles, Charles Leland (2012). <i>The Lion and the Lamb</i>. Nashville, TN: B&H. p. 40. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4336-7708-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4336-7708-3"><bdi>978-1-4336-7708-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Lion+and+the+Lamb&rft.place=Nashville%2C+TN&rft.pages=40&rft.pub=B%26H&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-4336-7708-3&rft.aulast=K%C3%B6stenberger&rft.aufirst=Andreas+J.&rft.au=Kellum%2C+Leonard+Scott&rft.au=Quarles%2C+Charles+Leland&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kidd18-195"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Kidd18_195-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKidd2006" class="citation book cs1">Kidd, Colin (2006). <i>The Forging of Races: race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world</i>. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-79324-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-79324-6"><bdi>0-521-79324-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Forging+of+Races%3A+race+and+scripture+in+the+Protestant+Atlantic+world&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-521-79324-6&rft.aulast=Kidd&rft.aufirst=Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LHoulden63-196"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LHoulden63_196-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoulden2005" class="citation book cs1">Houlden, J. L. (2005). <i>Jesus: the complete guide</i>. Bloomsbury. pp. 63–100. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8264-8011-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-8264-8011-X"><bdi>0-8264-8011-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3A+the+complete+guide&rft.pages=63-100&rft.pub=Bloomsbury&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-8264-8011-X&rft.aulast=Houlden&rft.aufirst=J.+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Perkinson30-197"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Perkinson30_197-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPerkinson2009" class="citation book cs1">Perkinson, Stephen (2009). <i>The Likeness of the King</i>. University of Chicago Press. p. 30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-65879-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-226-65879-7"><bdi>978-0-226-65879-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Likeness+of+the+King&rft.pages=30&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-226-65879-7&rft.aulast=Perkinson&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fox25-198"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-fox25_198-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillman2003" class="citation book cs1">Gillman, Florence Morgan (2003). <i>Herodias</i>. Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier. pp. 25–30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8146-5108-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8146-5108-9"><bdi>0-8146-5108-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Herodias&rft.place=Collegeville%2C+MN&rft.pages=25-30&rft.pub=Michael+Glazier&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-8146-5108-9&rft.aulast=Gillman&rft.aufirst=Florence+Morgan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hoehner125-199"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hoehner125_199-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoehner1980" class="citation book cs1">Hoehner, Harold W. (1980). <i>Herod Antipas</i>. 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Barnett">Barnett, Paul W.</a> (1997). <i>Jesus and the Logic of History</i>. <a href="/wiki/New_Studies_in_Biblical_Theology" title="New Studies in Biblical Theology">New Studies in Biblical Theology</a>. Vol. 3. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85111-512-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85111-512-2"><bdi>978-0-85111-512-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+and+the+Logic+of+History&rft.place=Downers+Grove%2C+IL&rft.series=New+Studies+in+Biblical+Theology&rft.pub=InterVarsity+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-85111-512-2&rft.aulast=Barnett&rft.aufirst=Paul+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBauckham2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bauckham" title="Richard Bauckham">Bauckham, Richard</a> (2011). <i>Jesus: A Very Short Introduction</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-957527-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-957527-5"><bdi>978-0-19-957527-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-19-957527-5&rft.aulast=Bauckham&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBeilbyEddy2009" class="citation book cs1">Beilby, James K.; Eddy, Paul Rhodes (2009). "The Quest for the Historical Jesus: An Introduction". In Beilby, James K.; Eddy, Paul Rhodes (eds.). <i>The Historical Jesus: Five Views</i>. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-83083-868-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-83083-868-4"><bdi>978-0-83083-868-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Quest+for+the+Historical+Jesus%3A+An+Introduction&rft.btitle=The+Historical+Jesus%3A+Five+Views&rft.place=Downers+Grove%2C+IL&rft.pub=InterVarsity+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-83083-868-4&rft.aulast=Beilby&rft.aufirst=James+K.&rft.au=Eddy%2C+Paul+Rhodes&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoyarin2012" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Boyarin" title="Daniel Boyarin">Boyarin, Daniel</a> (2012). <i>The Jewish Gospels: the Story of the Jewish Christ</i>. The New Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59558-878-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59558-878-4"><bdi>978-1-59558-878-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jewish+Gospels%3A+the+Story+of+the+Jewish+Christ&rft.pub=The+New+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-59558-878-4&rft.aulast=Boyarin&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown1993" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Raymond_E._Brown" title="Raymond E. Brown">Brown, Raymond E.</a> (1993). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/deathofmessiahvo00raym"><i>The Death of the Messiah: from Gethsemane to the Grave</i></a></span>. New York: Anchor Bible. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-49449-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-49449-6"><bdi>978-0-385-49449-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Death+of+the+Messiah%3A+from+Gethsemane+to+the+Grave&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Anchor+Bible&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-0-385-49449-6&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Raymond+E.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdeathofmessiahvo00raym&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistorical+Jesus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrownFitzmyerMurphy1990" class="citation book cs1">Brown, Raymond Edward; Fitzmyer, Joseph A.; Murphy, Roland Edmund (1990). <i>The New Jerome Biblical Commentary</i>. 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title="History">History</a></b></li></ul> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Historians" title="Category:Historians">historians</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Historicity" title="Category:Historicity">historicity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:History" title="Category:History">history</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Theories_of_history" title="Category:Theories of history">theories of history</a></i></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Historical_sources" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Historical_source" title="Historical source">Historical sources</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">Religious texts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scroll" title="Scroll">Scrolls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_diary" title="War diary">War diaries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Service_record" title="Service record">Service records</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Fields_of_study" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_sciences_of_history" title="Auxiliary sciences of history">Fields of study</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By scale</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_History" title="Big History">Big History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_history_(field)" title="World history (field)">World history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_history" title="Human history">Human history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_history" title="Local history">Local history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microhistory" title="Microhistory">Microhistory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By source</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archival_science" title="Archival science">Archival science</a> / <a href="/wiki/Library_and_information_science" title="Library and information science">Library and information science</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:Libraries_and_library_science" title="Template:Libraries and library science">template</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codicology" title="Codicology">Books</a> / <a href="/wiki/Palaeography" title="Palaeography">Writing systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chorography" title="Chorography">Chorography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronology" title="Chronology">Chronology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chronological_dating" title="Chronological dating">dating</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diplomatics" title="Diplomatics">Diplomatics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encyclopaedistics" title="Encyclopaedistics">Encyclopaedistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epigraphy" title="Epigraphy">Epigraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">Genealogy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraldry" title="Heraldry">Heraldry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numismatics" title="Numismatics">Numismatics (Money)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onomastics" title="Onomastics">Onomastics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oral_history" title="Oral history">Oral history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oral_history_preservation" title="Oral history preservation">preservation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaleristics" title="Phaleristics">Phaleristics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">Philology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philately" title="Philately">Postage stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosopography" title="Prosopography">Prosopography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigillography" title="Sigillography">Sigillography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toponymy" title="Toponymy">Toponymy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vexillology" title="Vexillology">Vexillology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">Anthropology</a> / <a href="/wiki/Paleoanthropology" title="Paleoanthropology">Paleoanthropology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_history" title="Cultural history">Cultural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_ecology" title="Historical ecology">Ecology</a> / <a href="/wiki/Environmental_history" title="Environmental history">Environment</a> / <a href="/wiki/Historical_geography" title="Historical geography">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history" title="Economic history">Economic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Business_history" title="Business history">Business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_capitalism" title="History of capitalism">Capitalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perspectives_on_capitalism_by_school_of_thought" title="Perspectives on capitalism by school of thought">Perspectives on capitalism by school of thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_economic_thought" title="History of economic thought">Thought</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intellectual_history" title="Intellectual history">Intellectual</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Geistesgeschichte" title="Geistesgeschichte">Geistesgeschichte</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_linguistics" title="Historical linguistics">Linguistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_ecclesiastic_historiography" title="Medieval ecclesiastic historiography">Medieval churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_historiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Military historiography">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_history" title="Political history">Political</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_history" title="Constitutional history">Constitutional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diplomatic_history" title="Diplomatic history">Diplomatic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_sociology" title="Historical sociology">Social</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_feminism" title="History of feminism">Feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_history" title="Gender history">Gender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnohistory" title="Ethnohistory">Indigenous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor_history" title="Labor history">Labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_history" title="LGBTQ history">LGBTQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_history" title="Rural history">Rural</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quantitative_history" title="Quantitative history">Quantitative</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_history" title="Urban history">Urban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_history" title="Women's history">Women</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Methodology" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Historical_method" title="Historical method">Methodology</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Case_study" title="Case study">Case study</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Periodization" title="Periodization">Periodization</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Historical_eras" title="Category:Historical eras">Historical eras</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tarikh" title="Tarikh">Tarikh</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-age_system" title="Three-age system">Three-age system</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Approaches,_schools" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Approaches,<br /> schools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annales_school" title="Annales school">Annales school</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_mentalities" title="History of mentalities">History of mentalities</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nouvelle_histoire" title="Nouvelle histoire">Nouvelle histoire</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiometry" title="Historiometry">Historiometry</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cliometrics" title="Cliometrics">Cliometrics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparative_historical_research" title="Comparative historical research">Comparative historical research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Critical_historiography" title="Critical historiography">Critical</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decoloniality" title="Decoloniality">Decoloniality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_history" title="Feminist history">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_anthropology" title="Historical anthropology">Historical anthropology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_determinism" title="Historical determinism">Historical determinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historism" title="Historism">Historism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_criticism" title="Historical criticism">Historical-critical method</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humanistic_historiography" title="Humanistic historiography">Humanistic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indiscipline_of_history&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indiscipline of history (page does not exist)">Indiscipline of history</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indisciplina_da_hist%C3%B3ria" class="extiw" title="pt:Indisciplina da história">pt</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leninist_historiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Leninist historiography">Leninist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_historiography" title="Marxist historiography">Marxist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_materialism" title="Historical materialism">Historical materialism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_historiography" title="Nationalist historiography">Nationalist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancestral_civilisation" title="Ancestral civilisation">Ancestral civilisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalization_of_history" title="Nationalization of history">Nationalization of history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_history" title="People's history">People's history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subaltern_Studies" title="Subaltern Studies">Subaltern Studies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_history" title="Popular history">Pop history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantitative_history" title="Quantitative history">Quantitative history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_revisionism" title="Historical revisionism">Revisionist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transnational_history" title="Transnational history">Transnational</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whig_history" title="Whig history">Whig</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Man_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Man theory">Great Man theory</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Concepts" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Concepts</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Change_and_continuity" title="Change and continuity">Change and continuity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_preservation" title="Historic preservation">Historic preservation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_recurrence" title="Historic recurrence">Historic recurrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_significance" title="Historical significance">Historical significance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicity" title="Historicity">Historicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiology" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiology">Historiology</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiolog%C3%ADa" class="extiw" title="es:Historiología">es</a>]</span> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theory_of_history&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theory of history (page does not exist)">Theory of history</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorie_der_Geschichte" class="extiw" title="de:Theorie der Geschichte">de</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_history" title="Philosophy of history">Philosophy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_legend" title="Black legend">Black legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coloniality_of_knowledge" title="Coloniality of knowledge">Coloniality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Decolonization_of_knowledge" title="Decolonization of knowledge">decolonization of knowledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)" title="Dark Ages (historiography)">Dark Ages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_negationism" title="Historical negationism">Historical negationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy" title="Historian's fallacy">Historian's fallacy</a> / <a href="/wiki/Presentism_(historical_analysis)" title="Presentism (historical analysis)">Presentism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invented_tradition" title="Invented tradition">Invented tradition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modernisation_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Modernisation theory">Modernisation theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrative_history" title="Narrative history">Narratives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paradigm_shift" title="Paradigm shift">Paradigm shift</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_periods_of_regional_peace" title="List of periods of regional peace">Pax</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Paxes" title="Template:Paxes">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-year_rule" title="Thirty-year rule">Thirty-year rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transhistoricity" title="Transhistoricity">Transhistoricity</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Translatio_imperii" title="Translatio imperii">Translatio imperii</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Translatio_studii" title="Translatio studii">Translatio studii</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vaticinium_ex_eventu" title="Vaticinium ex eventu">Vaticinium ex eventu</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Periodization_ofmodern_history" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Periodization of<br /><a href="/wiki/Modern_era" title="Modern era">modern history</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Discovery" title="Age of Discovery">Age of Discovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Age of Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Civil_War" title="European Civil War">European Civil War</a> / <a href="/wiki/Second_Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Second Thirty Years' War">Second Thirty Years' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_eighteenth_century" title="Long eighteenth century">Long 18th</a> / <a href="/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century" title="Long nineteenth century">19th century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Continuity_thesis" title="Continuity thesis">Continuity thesis</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="By_country_or_region" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">By country or region</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/African_historiography" title="African historiography">Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Egypt <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian pyramid construction techniques">Pyramid construction techniques</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_Egypt_Thesis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Black Egypt Thesis (page does not exist)">Black Egypt Thesis</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%C3%B3tesis_del_Egipto_Negro" class="extiw" title="es:Hipótesis del Egipto Negro">es</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_historiography" title="Ethiopian historiography">Ethiopia</a></li> <li>Morocco <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Morocco" title="Greater Morocco">Greater Morocco</a></li></ul></li> <li>Rwanda <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Double_genocide_theory_(Rwanda)" title="Double genocide theory (Rwanda)">Double genocide theory</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maafa" title="Maafa">Maafa</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Canada" title="Historiography of Canada">Canada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan-hinterland_thesis" title="Metropolitan-hinterland thesis">Metropolitan-hinterland thesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_history_wars" title="Canadian history wars">Residential schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staples_thesis" title="Staples thesis">Staples thesis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous population history</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_studies" title="Latin American studies">Latin America</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Argentina" title="Historiography of Argentina">Argentina</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_May_Revolution" title="Historiography of the May Revolution">May Revolution</a> / <a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_May_Revolution" title="Causes of the May Revolution">Causes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historical_revisionism_in_Argentina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historical revisionism in Argentina (page does not exist)">Revisionist</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionismo_hist%C3%B3rico_en_Argentina" class="extiw" title="es:Revisionismo histórico en Argentina">es</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Peru&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Peru (page does not exist)">Peru</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iquicha_War_of_1825%E2%80%931828#Historiography" title="Iquicha War of 1825–1828">Iquicha Royalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Colonial_Spanish_America" title="Historiography of Colonial Spanish America">Colonial Spanish America</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Casta" title="Casta">Casta</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_United_States" title="Historiography of the United States">United States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African-American_history#Historiography" title="African-American history">African-American history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relations" title="Nadir of American race relations">Nadir of American race relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoabolitionism_(race_relations)" title="Neoabolitionism (race relations)">Neoabolitionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era#Legacy_and_historiography" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consensus_history" title="Consensus history">Consensus history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclical_theory_(United_States_history)" title="Cyclical theory (United States history)">Cyclical theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontier_thesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Frontier thesis">Frontier thesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_history_in_the_United_States" title="Political history in the United States">Political history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Political_eras_of_the_United_States" title="Political eras of the United States">Eras</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_historians" title="Progressive historians">Progressive-era historians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eurasia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Albania" title="Historiography of Albania">Albania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dealbanisation" title="Dealbanisation">Dealbanisation</a></li></ul></li> <li>Austria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Habsburg_myth" title="Habsburg myth">Habsburg myth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balhae_controversies" title="Balhae controversies">Balhae</a></li> <li>Belarus <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Litvinism" title="Litvinism">Litvinism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_historiography" title="Bulgarian historiography">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Byzantine_historiography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Byzantine historiography (page does not exist)">Byzantine Empire</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantinische_Geschichtsschreibung" class="extiw" title="de:Byzantinische Geschichtsschreibung">de</a>]</span> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Early_Byzantine_historiography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Early Byzantine historiography (page does not exist)">Early</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Ранневизантийская историография">ru</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_historiography" title="Croatian historiography">Croatia</a></li> <li>Europe <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_ancient_Europe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of ancient Europe (page does not exist)">Ancient</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Античная историография">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_historiography" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval historiography">Medieval</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Средневековая историография">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Age_historiography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Age historiography (page does not exist)">New Age</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Историография Нового времени">ru</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li>Georgia <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aryan_Kartli" title="Aryan Kartli">Aryan Kartli</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenic_historiography" title="Hellenic historiography">Greek</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ages_of_Man" title="Ages of Man">Ages of Man</a></li></ul></li> <li>Iran <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2,500-year_celebration_of_the_Persian_Empire" title="2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire">2,500-year celebration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Japan" title="Historiography of Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Korea" title="Historiography of Korea">Korea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Korean_nationalist_historiography" title="Korean nationalist historiography">Nationalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goguryeo_controversies" title="Goguryeo controversies">Goguryeo controversies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_in_North_Macedonia" title="Historiography in North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Philippines" title="Historiography of the Philippines">Philippines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_early_Philippine_settlements" title="Historiography of early Philippine settlements">Early settlements</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiograpy_of_Portugal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiograpy of Portugal (page does not exist)">Portugal</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiografia_de_Portugal" class="extiw" title="pt:Historiografia de Portugal">pt</a>]</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lusotropicalism" title="Lusotropicalism">Lusotropicalism</a></li></ul></li> <li>Romania <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Union" title="Great Union">Great Union</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_historiography" title="Serbian historiography">Serbia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kosovo_Myth" title="Kosovo Myth">Kosovo Myth</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sweden <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6taland_theory" title="Götaland theory">Götaland theory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Switzerland" title="Historiography of Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Taiwanese_historiography" title="History of Taiwanese historiography">Taiwan</a></li> <li>Ukraine <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Executed_Renaissance" title="Executed Renaissance">Executed Renaissance</a></li></ul></li> <li>Vietnam <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Nam_ti%E1%BA%BFn" title="Nam tiến">Nam tiến</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tr%C6%B0ng_sisters" title="Trưng sisters">Trưng sisters</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_historiography" title="Roman historiography">Ancient Rome</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catilinarian_conspiracy#Historiography" title="Catilinarian conspiracy">Catilinarian conspiracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Christianization_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiography of Christianization of the Roman Empire">Christianization</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constantinian_shift" title="Constantinian shift">Constantinian shift</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Romanisation" title="Historiography of Romanisation">Expansion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire" title="Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire">Fall of Western Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosopography_of_ancient_Rome" title="Prosopography of ancient Rome">Prosopography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Succession of the Roman Empire">Succession</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Succession_to_the_Byzantine_Empire" title="Succession to the Byzantine Empire">Byzantine succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow,_third_Rome" title="Moscow, third Rome">Moscow, third Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_claim_to_Roman_succession" title="Ottoman claim to Roman succession">Ottoman claim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Problem_of_two_emperors" title="Problem of two emperors">Problem of two emperors</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_historiography" title="Chinese historiography">China</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Five_thousand_years_of_Chinese_civilization" title="Five thousand years of Chinese civilization">5000-year civilization assertion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Chinese_archaeology" title="History of Chinese archaeology">Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wunu_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wunu School (page does not exist)">Wunu School</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A0%E5%A5%B4%E6%B4%BE" class="extiw" title="zh:无奴派">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Century_of_humiliation" title="Century of humiliation">Century of humiliation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_dynasty" title="Conquest dynasty">Conquest dynasty</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Debate_on_the_Chineseness_of_the_Yuan_and_Qing_dynasties" title="Debate on the Chineseness of the Yuan and Qing dynasties">"Chineseness" debate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Qing_History" title="New Qing History">New Qing History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_ages_of_China" title="Golden ages of China">Golden ages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hua%E2%80%93Yi_distinction" title="Hua–Yi distinction">Hua–Yi distinction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Barbarians" title="Four Barbarians">Four Barbarians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinocentrism" title="Sinocentrism">Sinocentrism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-Strengthening_Movement#Evaluation" title="Self-Strengthening Movement">Self-Strengthening Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprouts_of_capitalism" title="Sprouts of capitalism">Sprouts of capitalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate" title="Tibetan sovereignty debate">Tibetan sovereignty debate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">France</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_(international_relations)" title="Cordon sanitaire (international relations)">Cordon sanitaire</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frankish_Interregnum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frankish Interregnum (page does not exist)">Frankish Interregnum</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interr%C3%A8gne_franc" class="extiw" title="fr:Interrègne franc">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Si%C3%A8cle" title="Grand Siècle">Grand Siècle</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Legendary_Saracen_in_France&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Legendary Saracen in France (page does not exist)">Legendary Saracen</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gendaire_sarrasin_en_France" class="extiw" title="fr:Légendaire sarrasin en France">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiographical_debate_on_the_location_of_Al%C3%A9sia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiographical debate on the location of Alésia (page does not exist)">Location of Alésia</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiographie_du_d%C3%A9bat_sur_la_localisation_d%27Al%C3%A9sia" class="extiw" title="fr:Historiographie du débat sur la localisation d'Alésia">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Lyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Lyon (page does not exist)">Lyon</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiographie_de_Lyon" class="extiw" title="fr:Historiographie de Lyon">fr</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Germany" title="Historiography of Germany">Germany</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Alltagsgeschichte" title="Alltagsgeschichte">Alltagsgeschichte</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borussian_myth" title="Borussian myth">Borussian myth</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Historikerstreit" title="Historikerstreit">Historikerstreit</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonderweg" title="Sonderweg">Sonderweg</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Strukturgeschichte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Strukturgeschichte (page does not exist)">Strukturgeschichte</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strukturgeschichte" class="extiw" title="de:Strukturgeschichte">de</a>]</span></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sybel-Ficker_controversy" title="Sybel-Ficker controversy">Sybel-Ficker controversy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vergangenheitsbew%C3%A4ltigung" title="Vergangenheitsbewältigung">Vergangenheitsbewältigung</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_India" title="Historiography of India">India</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Magadha" title="Greater Magadha">Greater Magadha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indocentrism" title="Indocentrism">Indocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Aryanism" title="Indigenous Aryanism">Indigenous Aryanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland#Historiography" title="History of Ireland">Ireland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Analysis_of_the_government's_role" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Great Famine</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/More_Irish_than_the_Irish_themselves" title="More Irish than the Irish themselves">More Irish than the Irish themselves</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revisionism_(Ireland)" title="Revisionism (Ireland)">Revisionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_revolutionary_period" title="Irish revolutionary period">Revolutionary period</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Italy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascist_Italy#Historiography" title="Fascist Italy">Fascist Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_entry_into_World_War_I" title="Italian entry into World War I">Fourth Italian War of Independence</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Historiae_Patriae_Monumenta" title="Historiae Patriae Monumenta">Historiae Patriae Monumenta</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_Series_of_the_Bank_of_Italy" title="Historical Series of the Bank of Italy">Historical Series of the Bank of Italy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Italiani_brava_gente" title="Italiani brava gente">Italiani brava gente</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rerum_italicarum_scriptores" title="Rerum italicarum scriptores">Rerum italicarum scriptores</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revisionism_of_Risorgimento" title="Revisionism of Risorgimento">Revisionism of Risorgimento</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_question" title="Southern question">Southern question</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Bourbonism" title="Neo-Bourbonism">Neo-Bourbonism</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Liberty#Assessment" title="Golden Liberty">Golden Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarmatism" title="Sarmatism">Sarmatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deluge_(history)#In_popular_culture" title="Deluge (history)">Deluge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland#Reasons,_legality_and_justifications" title="Partitions of Poland">Partitions</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_about_Polish_People%27s_Republic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography about Polish People's Republic (page does not exist)">Polish People's Republic</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiografia_PRL" class="extiw" title="pl:Historiografia PRL">pl</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Russia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Normanism" title="Anti-Normanism">Anti-Normanism</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pre-Revolution_Russian_historiography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pre-Revolution Russian historiography (page does not exist)">Pre-Revolutionary Russia</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:Российская дореволюционная историография">ru</a>]</span> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skeptic_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Skeptic School (page does not exist)">Skeptic School</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Скептическая школа">ru</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Historiography in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_Revolution#Historiography" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933" title="Soviet famine of 1930–1933">Soviet famine of 1930–1933</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor" title="Causes of the Holodomor">Causes of the Holodomor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question" title="Holodomor genocide question">Holodomor genocide question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holodomor_in_modern_politics" title="Holodomor in modern politics">Holodomor in modern politics</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Legend (Spain)">Black legend</a> / <a href="/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)#White_legend" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Legend (Spain)">White legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanism" title="Hispanism">Hispanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_on_Carlism_during_the_Francoist_era" title="Historiography on Carlism during the Francoist era">Carlism in the Francoist era</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Convivencia" title="Convivencia">Convivencia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Legend_of_the_Spanish_Inquisition" title="Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition">Inquisition</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Limpieza_de_sangre_controversy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Limpieza de sangre controversy (page does not exist)">Limpieza de sangre controversy</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estatutos_de_limpieza_de_sangre#Los_estatutos_de_limpieza_de_sangre,_¿el_origen_del_racismo_europeo?" class="extiw" title="es:Estatutos de limpieza de sangre">es</a>]</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquista</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_revolution_of_Spain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Islamic revolution of Spain (page does not exist)">Islamic revolution of Spain</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_revoluci%C3%B3n_isl%C3%A1mica_en_Occidente" class="extiw" title="es:La revolución islámica en Occidente">es</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revisionism_(Spain)" title="Revisionism (Spain)">Revisionist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty#Controversy_over_whether_the_American_Viceroyalties_were_Colonies_or_Provinces" title="Viceroyalty">Colonies or Provinces</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_decline&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish decline (page does not exist)">Spanish decline</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadencia_espa%C3%B1ola" class="extiw" title="es:Decadencia española">es</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ser_de_Espa%C3%B1a&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ser de España (page does not exist)">Ser de España</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser_de_Espa%C3%B1a" class="extiw" title="es:Ser de España">es</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Turkey</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kemalist_historiography" title="Kemalist historiography">Kemalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Historiography of the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ghaza_thesis" title="Ghaza thesis">Ghaza thesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_decline_thesis" title="Ottoman decline thesis">Decline thesis</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Historiography of the United Kingdom">United<br />Kingdom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Poor_Laws" title="Historiography of the Poor Laws">Poor Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Scotland" title="Historiography of Scotland">Scotland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Kingdom_of_Alba" title="Origins of the Kingdom of Alba">Kingdom of Alba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Stone_theory" title="Westminster Stone theory">Westminster Stone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storm_over_the_gentry" title="Storm over the gentry">Storm over the gentry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Suffragettes" title="Historiography of the Suffragettes">Suffragette Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tudor_myth" title="Tudor myth">Tudor myth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ricardian_(Richard_III)" title="Ricardian (Richard III)">Ricardians</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Legacy" title="Winter of Discontent">Winter of Discontent</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="BritishEmpire" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_British_Empire" title="Historiography of the British Empire">British<br />Empire</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_School_(imperial_history)" title="Cambridge School (imperial history)">Cambridge School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porter%E2%80%93MacKenzie_debate" title="Porter–MacKenzie debate">Porter–MacKenzie debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_colonial_occupation" title="Second colonial occupation">Second colonial occupation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_history_wars" title="Australian history wars">Colonial Australia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="By_war,_conflict" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">By war, conflict</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Military_historiography" title="Template:Military historiography"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Military_historiography" title="Template talk:Military historiography"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Military_historiography" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Military historiography"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Military_historiography" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">Military</a> <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Military_history" title="Military history">Military history</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_museums" title="List of military museums">List of military museums</a></b></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-18th century<br />conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade#Legacy" title="Albigensian Crusade">Albigensian Crusade</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catharism#Historical_and_current_scholarship" title="Catharism">Catharism debate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Crusades" title="Historiography of the Crusades">Crusades</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_views_on_the_crusades" title="Islamic views on the crusades">Islamic views</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Historiography of the Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Origins of the Eighty Years' War">Origins</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Babylon#Historiography" title="Fall of Babylon">Fall of Babylon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallic_Wars#Historiography" title="Gallic Wars">Gallic Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse" title="Late Bronze Age collapse">Late Bronze Age collapse</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorian_invasion" title="Dorian invasion">Dorian invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_Peoples" title="Sea Peoples">Sea Peoples</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War" title="History of the Peloponnesian War">Peloponnesian War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th and 19th<br />century conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Coalition_Wars(1792–1815)" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_and_Napoleonic_Wars" title="French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars">Coalition Wars</a><br />(1792–1815)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_French_Revolution" title="Historiography of the French Revolution">French Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_pre-revolution&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="French pre-revolution (page does not exist)">Pre-revolution</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9r%C3%A9volution_fran%C3%A7aise" class="extiw" title="fr:Prérévolution française">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_French_Revolution" title="Causes of the French Revolution">Causes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Russian_School_(French_Revolution)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Russian School (French Revolution) (page does not exist)">New Russian School</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%AB%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%C2%BB_%D0%B2_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8_XVIII_%D0%B2." class="extiw" title="ru:«Новая русская школа» в историографии Французской революции XVIII в.">ru</a>]</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e#Historiography" title="War in the Vendée">War in the Vendée</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_studies" title="Napoleonic studies">Napoleonic era</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia#Historical_assessment" title="French invasion of Russia">Invasion of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo#Historical_importance" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiographic_issues_about_the_American_Civil_War" title="Historiographic issues about the American Civil War">American Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Origins of the American Civil War">Origins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turning_point_of_the_American_Civil_War" title="Turning point of the American Civil War">Turning point</a></li></ul></li> <li>Franco-Prussian War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Franco-Prussian_War" title="Causes of the Franco-Prussian War">Causes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Paris_Commune" title="Historiography of the Paris Commune">Paris Commune</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Great_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiography of the Great Game">Great Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857#Historiography" title="Indian Rebellion of 1857">Indian Rebellion of 1857</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" title="Causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857">Causes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Paraguayan_War" title="Historiography of the Paraguayan War">Paraguayan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_War_of_1812" title="Historiography of the War of 1812">War of 1812</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_War_of_1812" title="Origins of the War of 1812">Origins</a></li></ul></li> <li>War of the Pacific <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_War_of_the_Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Causes of the War of the Pacific">Causes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_English_aid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Myth of English aid (page does not exist)">Myth of English aid</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mito_de_la_ayuda_inglesa" class="extiw" title="es:Mito de la ayuda inglesa">es</a>]</span></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_World_War_I" title="Historiography of World War I">World War I</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_causes_of_World_War_I" title="Historiography of the causes of World War I">Causes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Color_book" title="Color book">Color books</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Fischer_(historian)#Fischer_thesis" title="Fritz Fischer (historian)">Fischer thesis</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_Ottoman_genocides" title="Late Ottoman genocides">Late Ottoman genocides</a> (<a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Armenian_genocide" title="Causes of the Armenian genocide">Causes of the Armenian genocide</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patriotic_consent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patriotic consent (page does not exist)">Patriotic consent</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consentement_patriotique" class="extiw" title="fr:Consentement patriotique">fr</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persian_famine_of_1917%E2%80%931919" title="Persian famine of 1917–1919">Persian famine of 1917–1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powder_keg_of_Europe" title="Powder keg of Europe">Powder keg of Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan#History" title="Schlieffen Plan">Schlieffen Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_of_1914" title="Spirit of 1914">Spirit of 1914</a> / <a href="/wiki/Spirit_of_1917" title="Spirit of 1917">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_the_Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (page does not exist)">Treaty of Brest-Litovsk</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Историография Брестского мира">ru</a>]</span></li> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Treaty_ofVersailles" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#Historical_assessments" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of<br />Versailles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_War_I_reparations#Analysis" title="World War I reparations">Reparations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_guilt_question" title="War guilt question">War guilt question</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Article_231_of_the_Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles">Article 231</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reichstag_inquiry_into_guilt_for_World_War_I" title="Reichstag inquiry into guilt for World War I">Reichstag inquiry</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Interwar_period" title="Interwar period">Interwar period</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_burning_of_Smyrna" title="Responsibility for the burning of Smyrna">Burning of Smyrna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War#Aftermath_and_legacy" title="Polish–Soviet War">Polish–Soviet War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War" title="Causes of the Polish–Soviet War">Causes</a></li></ul></li> <li>Spanish Civil War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War" title="Background of the Spanish Civil War">Background</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_World_War_II" title="Historiography of World War II">World War II</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Causes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blitzkrieg#Post-war_controversy" title="Blitzkrieg">"Blitzkrieg" concept</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broad_front_versus_narrow_front_controversy_in_World_War_II" title="Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II">Broad vs. narrow front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_German_resistance_to_Nazism" title="Historiography of German resistance to Nazism">German resistance to Nazism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_foreign_policy_debate" title="Nazi foreign policy debate">Nazi foreign policy debate</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Eastern Front</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact#Postwar_commentary_on_motives_of_Stalin_and_Hitler" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy" title="Soviet offensive plans controversy">Soviet offensive plans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising#Soviet_stance" title="Warsaw Uprising">Soviets and the Warsaw Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia" title="Historiography of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia">Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Winter_War" title="Aftermath of the Winter War">Winter War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_of_the_Winter_War" title="Background of the Winter War">Background</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_of_the_Winter_War" title="Spirit of the Winter War">Spirit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_studies" title="Holocaust studies">The Holocaust</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_bombing_debate" title="Auschwitz bombing debate">Auschwitz bombing debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe" title="Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe">Awareness in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Functionalism%E2%80%93intentionalism_debate" title="Functionalism–intentionalism debate">Functionalism–intentionalism debate</a></li> <li>In relation to the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide_and_the_Holocaust" title="Armenian genocide and the Holocaust">Armenian genocide</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust_and_the_Nakba" title="The Holocaust and the Nakba">Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII_and_the_Holocaust#Historiography" title="Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust">Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pius_Wars" title="Pius Wars">Pius Wars</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_controversy" title=""Polish death camp" controversy">"Polish death camp"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Holocaust" title="Responsibility for the Holocaust">Responsibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Holocaust_in_Slovakia" title="Historiography of the Holocaust in Slovakia">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_uniqueness_debate" title="Holocaust uniqueness debate">Uniqueness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pacific War</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_for_Australia" title="Battle for Australia">"Battle for Australia"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Historiography" title="Bengal famine of 1943">Bengal famine</a></li> <li>Second Sino-Japanese War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Nanjing_Massacre" title="Historiography of the Nanjing Massacre">Nanjing Massacre</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Western Front</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Battle_of_France" title="Historiography of the Battle of France">Battle of France</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guilty_Men" title="Guilty Men">Guilty Men</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9sistancialisme" title="Résistancialisme">Résistancialisme</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Vichy_France&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Vichy France (page does not exist)">Vichy France</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiographie_du_r%C3%A9gime_de_Vichy" class="extiw" title="fr:Historiographie du régime de Vichy">fr</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Cold_War" title="Historiography of the Cold War">Cold War</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Cold_War" title="Origins of the Cold War">Origins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Palestine_war#Historiography" title="1948 Palestine war">1948 Palestine war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight" title="Causes of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight">Palestinian expulsion and flight</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ongoing_Nakba" title="Ongoing Nakba">Ongoing Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism" title="Zionism as settler colonialism">Zionism as settler colonialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Historians" title="New Historians">New Historians</a></li></ul></li> <li>Malayan Emergency <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_and_causes_of_the_Malayan_Emergency" title="Background and causes of the Malayan Emergency">Causes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Algerian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiography of the Algerian War">Algerian War</a></li> <li>Six-Day War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Six-Day_War" title="Origins of the Six-Day War">Origins</a></li></ul></li> <li>Iranian revolution <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_and_causes_of_the_Iranian_revolution" title="Background and causes of the Iranian revolution">Causes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_and_memory_of_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Legacy and memory of the Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Falklands_War" title="Aftermath of the Falklands War">Falklands War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_dispute" title="Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute">Sovereignty dispute</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sri Lankan civil war <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Origins_of_the_Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Origins of the Sri Lankan civil war">Origins</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Cold War</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Russo-Georgian War <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_of_the_Russo-Georgian_War" title="Background of the Russo-Georgian War">Background</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Russo-Georgian_War" title="Responsibility for the Russo-Georgian War">Responsibility</a></li></ul></li> <li>Syrian revolution <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Background_and_causes_of_the_Syrian_revolution" title="Background and causes of the Syrian revolution">Causes</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conflict_thesis" title="Conflict thesis">Conflict thesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_gunpowder_and_gun_transmission" title="Historiography of gunpowder and gun transmission">Gunpowder and gun transmission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torsion_mangonel_myth" title="Torsion mangonel myth">Torsion mangonel myth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_and_genocide" title="War and genocide">War and genocide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">By person</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political<br />leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Adolf_Hitler" title="Historiography of Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Alexander_the_Great" title="Historiography of Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#Evaluations_of_Husseini's_historical_significance" title="Amin al-Husseini">Amin al-Husseini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb#Assessments_and_legacy" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Cato_the_Younger" title="Legacy of Cato the Younger">Cato the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Che_Guevara" title="Legacy of Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Chiang_Ching-kuo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Chiang Ching-kuo (page does not exist)">Chiang Ching-kuo</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%94%A3%E7%B6%93%E5%9C%8B%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對蔣經國的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Chiang_Kai_Shek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Chiang Kai Shek (page does not exist)">Chiang Kai Shek</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%94%A3%E4%B8%AD%E6%AD%A3%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對蔣中正的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great#Historiography" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palamism#Initial_Western_reactions" title="Palamism">Gregory Palamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Legacy of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypatia#Legacy" title="Hypatia">Hypatia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Jiang_Zemin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Jiang Zemin (page does not exist)">Jiang Zemin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E6%B1%9F%E6%BE%A4%E6%B0%91%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對江澤民的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Joseph_Stalin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Joseph Stalin (page does not exist)">Joseph Stalin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#Мнения_и_оценки_личности_Сталина" class="extiw" title="ru:Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович">ru</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn#Historiography" title="Legacy of José de San Martín">José de San Martín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Juan_Manuel_de_Rosas" title="Historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas">Juan Manuel de Rosas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_assessment_of_Klemens_von_Metternich" title="Historical assessment of Klemens von Metternich">Klemens von Metternich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_Louis_Riel" title="Historiography of Louis Riel">Louis Riel</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Mao_Zedong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Mao Zedong (page does not exist)">Mao Zedong</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%B9%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%85%B1%E4%BA%A7%E5%85%9A%E7%9A%84%E8%AF%84%E8%AE%BA" class="extiw" title="zh:对中国共产党的评论">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reception_and_legacy_of_Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Reception and legacy of Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Napoleon" title="Legacy of Napoleon">Napoleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain#Legacy_and_reputation" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Pedro_II_of_Brazil" title="Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil">Pedro II of Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar#Legacy" title="Simón Bolívar">Simon Bolivar</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cult_of_personality_of_Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cult of personality of Simón Bolívar (page does not exist)">Cult of personality</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culto_a_la_personalidad_de_Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" class="extiw" title="es:Culto a la personalidad de Simón Bolívar">es</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivarianism" title="Bolivarianism">Bolivarianism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saladin#Recognition_and_legacy" title="Saladin">Saladin</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Sun_Yat_Tse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Sun Yat Tse (page does not exist)">Sun Yat Tse</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E5%AD%AB%E4%B8%AD%E5%B1%B1%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對孫中山的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas#Legacy,_veneration,_and_modern_reception" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_reputation_of_Thomas_Jefferson" title="Historical reputation of Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_reputation_of_Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Historical reputation of Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_reputation_of_Warren_G._Harding" title="Historical reputation of Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Yuan_Shikai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Yuan Shikai (page does not exist)">Yuan Shikai</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%A2%81%E4%B8%96%E5%87%B1%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對袁世凱的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Zhou_Enlai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Zhou Enlai (page does not exist)">Zhou Enlai</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E5%91%A8%E6%81%A9%E4%BE%86%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對周恩來的評價">zh</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Historiography_of_Zhuge_Liang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Historiography of Zhuge Liang (page does not exist)">Zhuge Liang</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%AB%B8%E8%91%9B%E4%BA%AE%E7%9A%84%E8%A9%95%E5%83%B9" class="extiw" title="zh:對諸葛亮的評價">zh</a>]</span></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Historicalrankings" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_heads_of_government" title="Historical rankings of heads of government">Historical<br />rankings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_prime_ministers_of_Australia" title="Historical rankings of prime ministers of Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_prime_ministers_of_Canada" title="Historical rankings of prime ministers of Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_chancellors_of_Germany" title="Historical rankings of chancellors of Germany">Modern Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_prime_ministers_of_the_Netherlands" title="Historical rankings of prime ministers of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Historical rankings of prime ministers of the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="Historical rankings of presidents of the United States">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_the_Beatles" title="Cultural impact of the Beatles">The Beatles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darwin_Industry" title="Darwin Industry">Charles Darwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_studies" title="Lovecraft studies">H. P. Lovecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reception_history_of_Jane_Austen" title="Reception history of Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammed" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammed">Muhammed</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad" title="Historicity of Muhammad">Historicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Muhammad" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism's view of Muhammad">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_Christian_views_on_Muhammad" title="Medieval Christian views on Muhammad">Medieval Christian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Jesus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus" title="Historicity of Jesus">Historicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_perspectives_on_Jesus" title="Religious perspectives on Jesus">Religious perspectives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity" title="Jesus in Christianity">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism's view of Jesus">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Islam</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_research" title="Tolkien research">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Literary_reception_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Madonna" title="Cultural impact of Madonna">Madonna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Robert_Falcon_Scott" title="Controversies surrounding Robert Falcon Scott">Robert Falcon Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socratic_problem" title="Socratic problem">Socrates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Influence and reception of Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Reputation of William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other_topics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other topics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bears_in_antiquity" title="Bears in antiquity">Bears in antiquity</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crisis_of_historiography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crisis of historiography (page does not exist)">Crisis of historiography</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crise_da_historiografia" class="extiw" title="pt:Crise da historiografia">pt</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_feudalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiography of feudalism">Feudalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalism_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Nationalism in the Middle Ages">Nationalism in the Middle Ages</a></li> <li><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/Professionalization_and_institutionalization_of_history" title="Professionalization and institutionalization of history">Professionalization and institutionalization of history</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_salon" title="Historiography of the salon">Salons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Analysis_of_Western_European_colonialism_and_colonization" class="mw-redirect" title="Analysis of Western European colonialism and colonization">Western European colonialism and colonization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desacralization_of_knowledge" title="Desacralization of knowledge">Desacralization of knowledge</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Economics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Recession" title="Causes of the Great Recession">Great Recession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression" title="Causes of the Great Depression">Great Depression</a></li> <li>School of Thoughts <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_school_of_economics" title="Historical school of economics">Historical school of economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_historical_school_of_economics" title="English historical school of economics">English historical school of economics</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_religion" title="Historiography of religion">Religion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avestan_geography" title="Avestan geography">Avestan geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_early_Christianity" title="Historiography of early Christianity">Early Christianity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_background_of_the_New_Testament" title="Historical background of the New Testament">Background</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_reliability_of_the_Gospels" title="Historical reliability of the Gospels">Historical reliability of the Gospels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Primacy_of_Peter" title="Primacy of Peter">Primacy of Peter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Papal_supremacy#Opposition" title="Papal supremacy">Opposition to Papal supremacy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-orthodox_Christianity" title="Proto-orthodox Christianity">Proto-orthodox Christianity</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_early_Islam" title="Historiography of early Islam">Early Islam</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Quran" title="Criticism of the Quran">Criticism of the Quran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Succession_to_Muhammad" title="Succession to Muhammad">Succession to Muhammad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_golden_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic golden age">Islamic golden age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharijites#Legacy" title="Kharijites">Kharijites</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_history_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church">Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council#Controversies" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hermeneutics_of_Vatican_Council_II&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hermeneutics of Vatican Council II (page does not exist)">Hermeneutics of Vatican Council II</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermeneutica_del_Concilio_Vaticano_II" class="extiw" title="it:Ermeneutica del Concilio Vaticano II">it</a>]</span></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesychast_controversy" title="Hesychast controversy">Hesychast controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reformation#Conclusion_and_legacy" title="Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Protestantism" title="Proto-Protestantism">Proto-Protestantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Protestantism" title="Criticism of Protestantism">Criticism of Protestantism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic" title="Protestant work ethic">Protestant work ethic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesuits#Controversies" title="Jesuits">Jesuit historiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_Jewish_historiography" title="Modern Jewish historiography">Modern Jewish history</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wissenschaft_des_Judentums" title="Wissenschaft des Judentums">Wissenschaft des Judentums</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Schools of thought <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biblical_criticism" title="Biblical criticism">Biblical criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Catholic theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panbabylonism" title="Panbabylonism">Panbabylonism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urreligion" title="Urreligion">Urreligion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditionalist_School_(perennialism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditionalist School (perennialism)">Perennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_religions_school" title="History of religions school">Religionsgeschichtliche Schule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_School_(history_of_religion)" title="Roman School (history of religion)">Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revisionist_school_of_Islamic_studies" title="Revisionist school of Islamic studies">Revisionist school of Islamic studies</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_science" title="Historiography of science">Science</a> /<br />Technology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Merton_thesis" title="Merton thesis">Merton thesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism" title="The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism">Protestant Ethic and Capitalism</a></li> <li><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/Heroic_theory_of_invention_and_scientific_development" title="Heroic theory of invention and scientific development">Heroic theory of invention and scientific development</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_gunpowder_and_gun_transmission" title="Historiography of gunpowder and gun transmission">Gunpowder and gun transmission</a></li> <li><a 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