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Jesus, Skepticism & the Problem of History: Criteria & Context in the Study of Christian Origins is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent years, a number of New Testament scholars engaged in academic historical Jesus studies have concluded that such scholarship cannot yield secure and illuminating conclusions about its subject, arguing that the search for a historically “authentic” Jesus has run aground. Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History brings together a stellar lineup of New Testament scholars who contend...

historical. Historians cannot conclude that Jesus rose from the dead because this statement presupposes theological beliefs that are specific to Christianity and not commonly shared by most or all people.77 He then ties this claim explicitly to the conventional distinction between history and the past: History, for historians, is not the same as “the past.” The past is everything that has happened before; history is what we can establish as having happened before, using historical forms of evidence.
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