The Jesus Itinerary

[John V]

There are tremendous contradictions between the two, which surely would have been ironed out if they knew about one another's work. A simpler explanation is they both drew upon similar urban legends.

You can't assume contradictions when that's the topic under debate.

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Or that some scribe homogenized the accounts according to his own whim.

So they're contradictory, but they've been homogenized...