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The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus research are in the Gospels themselves; when interpreted in their early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern scholars. So argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels. In exploring the depth and riches of the material found in the...

could achieve it; they often displayed critical thinking regarding sources (as often, though not always, exemplified in Polybius); and they recognized that sources closer to the events were more apt to be accurate than later ones were. In ways that differed starkly from modern historians, ancient historians were creative with speeches and moralistic adaptations.3 Here, however, we examine the more “conservative” side of ancient historiography: historians did not
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