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At the heart of the Christian faith stands a man, Jesus of Nazareth. Few people seriously question whether Jesus existed in history. But many, influenced by the more skeptical scholars, doubt that the Christ of orthodox Christianity is the same as the Jesus of history. Historian Paul W. Barnett lays these doubts to rest. He uncovers the methodological weaknesses present in some forms of critical...

with Platonists, Stoics, Epicureans and Cynics. Notwithstanding these limitations, Josephus’s writings do provide extensive understanding of the political, social and religious world of Jesus. These criticisms do not amount to a rejection of the value of sociological analysis. To the degree to which it rests on appropriate sources, it assists in reconstructing Jesus’ landscape, which in turn enhances our appreciation of him.14 But the reconstructed context in itself tells us little of particular
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