THE SWOON THEORY As for the swoon theory, if we may accept Albert Schweitzer’s judgment (see his Vom Reimarus zu Wrede [1906], entitled The Quest of the Historical Jesus in the English translation), David Strauss dealt the “death-blow” to this view over one hundred and fifty years ago, but one occasionally hears it advanced as a possibility in discussions today. This theory maintains that Jesus had not actually died on the cross but had only slipped into a coma-like state, and that in the tomb he