The fuckers can't even decide among themselves what the mean by "historical jesus," Rob.
http://www.bede.org.uk/methodologies.htm
"Jesus" is whatever anyone wants him to be. And that makes him mythical.
Quote:Unfortunately the man in the centre of all this scholarly activity remains an enigma. Who was Jesus? Crossan claims he was a revolutionary peasant, to Burton Mack he was a “cynic-like sage” [NOTE], to Tom Wright he is a Jewish prophet and to Marcus Borg a charismatic preacher (and definitely not an eschatological prophet). As Luke Timothy Johnson says, all this variety could mean that “virtually any hypothesis can sustain itself” [NOTE] and even Crossan admits that the “stunning diversity is an academic embarrassment.”
http://www.bede.org.uk/methodologies.htm
"Jesus" is whatever anyone wants him to be. And that makes him mythical.