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Professor David Flusser’s biography of the life of Jesus is the fruit of almost fifty years of personal research concerning what may be considered the most well-known figure of the Second Temple Period. His philological-historical approach calls for a reconsideration of how we read the literary sources. He brings to bear the wealth of new information regarding the first-century setting in light...

it clear what he thought of himself. Because of the brevity of his public activity, no unequivocal answer can be given to the question of his own self-assessment.2 The testimony of the Belgian authorities in the Congo is as helpful in his case as are the archives of the governor Pilate, or the records in the chancellery of the high priest in the case of Jesus. The early Christian accounts about Jesus are not as untrustworthy as people today often think. The first three Gospels not only present a
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