historical question. What if there is no connecting relationship between the Jesus in (say) Mark’s artistry and Jesus as he was? Put simply, it means we have the possibility of a global story and individual stories that are no more than that, stories—in a word, fiction. Once again, we have not been able to reach back from the postresurrection worshiping church of the letters and the Apocalypse to the preresurrection historical Jesus. Subjectivity in history writing is not new. Indeed,