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WRT Jesus, for reals
I am under the impression that several of this blog's readers have nonzero knowledge or interest in the topic of the Historical Jesus: the ancient Jewish prophet and rabble-rouser. No more divine than you or I, perhaps, but apparently possessing of a remarkable presence, and maybe a shocking orator for his time, so outrageous that the authorities saw it necessary to silence him.
To you I ask: if I wanted to read a really solid, secular account of the life of this man, where would I turn?
I suppose I would prefer non-fiction, but fiction is OK, so long as it's appropriately informed. Specific books and chapters of the New Testament are also OK to recommend. Assume I know nothing. I am coming at this not so much raw as tinted. I carry nearly 20 years of actively Christian education and upbringing and all its attendant assumptions in my personal baggage, and I have never really properly unpacked it.
(Is this for a project? Yes, it is for a project.)
To you I ask: if I wanted to read a really solid, secular account of the life of this man, where would I turn?
I suppose I would prefer non-fiction, but fiction is OK, so long as it's appropriately informed. Specific books and chapters of the New Testament are also OK to recommend. Assume I know nothing. I am coming at this not so much raw as tinted. I carry nearly 20 years of actively Christian education and upbringing and all its attendant assumptions in my personal baggage, and I have never really properly unpacked it.
(Is this for a project? Yes, it is for a project.)
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I might go further and suggest that the physical evidence for a real Jesus human is problematic. There are those who believe he was always meant to be a myth.