and his disciples’ later aim, which was to promote a new spiritual religion of miracle, mystery, and ritual following the collapse of the theocratic hope shared with Jesus himself. Schweitzer has little interest in any such disjunction. He insists that Reimarus’s text is primarily concerned with eschatology, a reading significantly influenced by the peculiarities of Lessing’s original publication. At the heart of Reimarus’s original text lies an extensive critique of the resurrection narratives,