RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 11, 2013 at 1:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Zone.)
(February 11, 2013 at 1:16 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: End-timers and doom-criers abounded at that time and Yeshua was a common name. A mortal JC could have been almost anybody. Maybe there were several.
The Essenes the Jewish sect who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls were around at this time and they like Jesus/Yeshua had this notion of the end of times being imanent. So I can easily see a historical figure of a wandering heretical first century Rabbi coming from this background.