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Jesus: Historical Jesus
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While Jesus of Nazareth is the most historically accurate, other films add a bit of fiction to the life of Jesus. The idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, for example, doesn't exist in the Gospels, but it's a common theme in film versions.
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At the epoch when Jesus according to Christianity stood up and claimed to be Messiah, many other characters did the same, as it is indicated in historical sources. Claiming to be Messiah, was at time very much of a trend, a trend that was motivated by the hardship that many Jews felt from the Roman occupation: the only hope they had was the redeemer, Messiah.
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Historical Jesus taught in pithy parables and with striking images. He likened the Kingdom of Heaven to small and lowly things, such as yeast or a mustard seed. Historians often see Jesus' theological pronouncements in the gospels as coming from the Christian tradition but not from Jesus' himself.
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This chapter deals with the sources upon which a historical knowledge of Jesus can be based. A small amount of non-Christian testimony is presented, but the major sources are the Christian witnesses, the Gospel tradition, and the narrative sections of the Synoptic gospels.
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A Galilean Jew named Jesus was executed by the Roman authorities during the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14—37), who was Augustus’ successor. At the time, few people paid much attention to what proved to be one of the most pivotal events in world history. In the quest for the historical Jesus, scholars have stressed the importance of both his Jewishness and the religious ferment that prevailed in Palestine in the first century B.C. Jesus’ ethical teachings are rooted in the moral outlook of Old Testament prophets and must be viewed as a logical extension of the Hebrew Scriptures...a product of the whole religious environment of which Jesus was a part. Jesus defined himself as a Jew, was highly conscious of the Jewishness of his message and would have found it impossible to conceive of himself as anything but Jewish.1
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The purpose of this web page is to explain and explore some of the theories offered up by contemporary scholars on the historical Jesus and the origins of the Christian religion. Issues include the nature of the historical Jesus, the nature of the early Christian documents, and the origins of the Christian faith in a risen Jesus Christ. An attempt has been made to include historical Jesus theories across the spectrum from Marcus Borg to N.T. Wright and to describe these historical Jesus theories in an accurate and concise way.
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