New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin
Season 1 • Episode 13: The Historical Jesus • Watch with subtitles
Episode 13: The Historical Jesus
September 2, 2009
It is obvious that certain narratives in the New Testament contradict each other and cannot be woven into a historically coherent whole. How, then, do scholars construct who the "historical Jesus" was? There are several principles that historical Jesus researchers follow, which include considering data that 1) has multiple attestations and 2) is dissimilar to a text's theological tendencies as more likely to be historical. Using the modern methods of historical research, it becomes possible to construct a "historical Jesus."
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