Historical Jesus

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August 2021

August 03, 2021

Finding the Real Deal Jesus

Finding the real Jesus means dropping old mental idols and getting informed by the social...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Progressive Jesus Is Also Fake

Jesus was not a progressive. As my readers explored last week, U.S. Christians commit many identity...

May 2021

May 04, 2021

Lowly Lowlife Jesus

Lowly and poor was the village tektōn Jesus, just above the degraded and expendable of first-century Palestine....

February 2021

February 21, 2021

Testing, Not Temptation—Jesus & Satan in the Wilderness

Satan was testing Jesus, not tempting him as popularly imagined—and Jesus successfully passed his trials....

February 07, 2020

Missing Gospel Stories!

Missing from one Gospel, but included in another, traditions about Jesus differ widely between “Matthew,”...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Difficulties! Gospels Cannot be Biographies!

Difficulties abound for Western Bible readers expecting of the Gospels the kind of fact-precise, historically...

January 23, 2020

Sayings of Jesus Grew Into Gospel Stories

Sayings of Jesus, originally pithy zingers, grew over time into much larger Gospel passages as...

January 18, 2020

Changing Jesus: A Perennial Tradition

Changing deeds and words of Jesus is not something recent in Christian history—from New Testament...

December 2019

December 02, 2019

Historical or True?—Jesus Birth Stories

Historical or truthful?—there are reasons for thinking that the biblical stories of Jesus’ birth are...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

Knowing Jesus

Knowing the historical Jesus may be harder than it seems, but there are some things...