(March 6, 2014 at 8:15 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 6, 2014 at 8:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You've already got yourself in a bit of a bind, mate. There are no '...ancient biographies of Jesus's [sic] life...'. Not a single one.
Boru
There are four actually.
Sorry, no. The Gospels are not biographies in any meaningful sense of the word. Since they are based on oral tradition, they are more akin to folk tales or hagiographies. They have no supportive independent sources, they aren't a terribly informative source about life in 1st century Judea, and were written long after the events they purport to depict.
Boru
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