RE: Embellishments in the Gospel of Mark.
April 1, 2019 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2019 at 6:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 1, 2019 at 5:59 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Well, that's as clear as mud.I don't think that it is, no. Even more fundamentally, assuming it were..I wouldn't expect to learn anything about whoever that was from any of the myths or legends we find today.
Are you saying you agree that the historicity of Jesus is likely?
Quote:Do you agree with the explanation given in the Wiki article I quote below? If not , could you please tell me your objections. Up to now, I have no problem accepting the existence of Jesus as most likely.I bolded a bit, above. I've commented on it before. That sentence is doing alot of work with that kind of caveat at the back. What the majority of scholars agree on is that the majority of scholars are wrong about their pet historical jesus.
I have always found your posts lucid and reasoned. I do admit there have bene times when it has been a struggle to keep up with you. I would appreciate your opinion.
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The historicity of Jesus is the question if Jesus of Nazareth can be regarded as a historical figure. Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical-critical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain,[1][2] although they differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the details of his life that have been described in the gospels.[3][4][5][note 1]
The question of the historicity of Jesus is part of the study of the historical Jesus as undertaken in the quest for the historical Jesus and the scholarly reconstructions of the life of Jesus, based primarily on critical analysis of the gospel texts and applying the standard criteria of critical-historical investigation,[6][7][8] and methodologies for analyzing the reliability of primary sources and other historical evidence.[9]
While scholars have criticized Jesus scholarship for religious bias and lack of methodological soundness,[note 2] with very few exceptions such critics generally do support the historicity of Jesus and reject the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed.[11][12][13][14][note 3]
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