Jesus' Sacrifice

[robvalue]

I'm very interested now to find out more about the history of the jesus story, what it was originally like and how it got defiled from a nice story about human sacrifice into a stupid nonsensical story about human sacrifice.

Anyone have a good resource for this?

Here is a link to a hypothesized passion narrative that may have been an earlier source utilized by the writers of Mark. Scholars think the passion narrative existed, because the ways characters and locations are named doesn't make sense unless the narrative was written in an earlier political climate for people familiar with the geography around Jerusalem. Mark was written later for Gentile Christians.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/passion.html

Great, thank you