Santa Barbara, now somewhat incongruously teaching creative writing at U.C. Of course, that hasn't stopped thousands of would‐be Jesus‐historians, whether simple‐mindedly pious or degreed experts, from trying and their work is everywhere.īut it hasn't been successful, and we can see why early on in Aslan's book. Any hope of validating or rejecting the many contradictory narrative and theological strands in Christian Scripture through reliable outside sources (Josephus, Tacitus, etc.) was doomed because there were so few of them (and none with any decisive data). About all you could say with any certainty was that Jesus was a prophet and preacher who looked forward to a proximate, apocalyptic end of the world-which of course never happened. Back in 1906, Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus argued that you can't carve a true biography of Jesus out of the Gospels, because none of the New Testament authors ever meant to write history in the modern sense.
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