set up the kingdom. Some modern accounts of Jesus sound like little more than repeats of Reimarus. Altogether gone from Reimarus’s understanding of Jesus is the transcendent, the supernatural, the entering of God into human affairs. Schweitzer believed that much in Reimarus was correct. The most impressive and influential of the nineteenth-century books on Jesus was that by the twenty-seven-year-old David Friedrich Strauss, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (German original, 1835).5 William Baird
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