Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth

Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth

When New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman published Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, he not only attempted to prove the historical reality of a man called â€œJesus of Nazareth,â€ he sharply criticized scholars who have sought to develop a new paradigm in the study of Christian originsâ€”scholars who have claimed that Jesus was a mythical, not historical, figure, and that the traditional, Jesus-centered paradigm for studying the origins of Christianity must be replaced by an actual science of Christian origins. In the present volume, some of those scholars respond to Ehrmanâ€™s treatment of their research and findings, showing how he has either ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented their arguments. They present evidence that â€œJesus of Nazarethâ€ was no more historical than Osiris or Thor. Several contributors question not only the historicity of â€œJesus of Nazareth,â€ they present evidence that the site of present-day Nazareth was not inhabited at the time Jesus and his family should have been living there.

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