“These are all Christian and are obviously and understandably biased in what they report, and have to be evaluated very critically indeed to establish any historically reliable information,” Ehrman says. “But their central claims about Jesus as a historical figure—a Jew, with followers, ...
The purpose of this article is to explain the author's understanding of the historical Jesus in terms of a "Weberian" ideal type model. The lack of historical evidence of the role of a father in the life of Jesus in early Christian literature from the period prior to 70 CE, including ...
The real flaw in Crossan’s argument in my opinion is that he assumes that Jesus must have been like the majority of people who lived in the same time and place as him and he does not allow for the entirely reasonable possibility that Jesus might have been better educated than most people...
First off, his actual birth name was Bertone — his father was of Italian descent — but he changed his last name to Meeink — his mother’s maiden name — while in Catholic school. According to another account, Meeink was convinced by a Chabad rabbi that his last name “sounded” Jew...
‘someone infinitely sublime’,[34] to inform him that ‘I believe that the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ could not have felt more deeply for their Lord than we for you’.[35] Numerous expression of devotion in a similar vein can be found in the correspondence between The Master and...
The historically known kings Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure may well have appropriated, and possibly restored, the three Giza pyramids as their own memorial monuments, and may have been responsible for some of the surrounding auxiliary structures -- small subsidiary pyramids, temples, tombs, and boat...
Near the story's end, she composes her opus, “Thunder: Perfect Mind” (a historically real document that was found in the Egyptian desert in 1945). Later, Ana buries copies of it and all her narratives on the side of a cliff to preserve them for future generations. Do you feel she...
Charles de Foucauld, an ascetic monk known as a Little Brother of Jesus, is an unlikely patron saint for diocesan priests. He inspired the International Fraternity of Jesus Caritas thus becoming one of the few patron saints for diocesan priests. At the beginning of December 1916 and at the re...
Up until the early 20th century, Mark was considered to be the most historically accurate version of the events of Jesus' life, but between 1901 and 1919, two different historians, William Wrede and Karl Ludwig Schmidt,showed thatMark was a theological construct that had been rebuilt with ...
Up until the early 20th century, Mark was considered to be the most historically accurate version of the events of Jesus' life, but between 1901 and 1919, two different historians, William Wrede and Karl Ludwig Schmidt, showed that Mark was a theological construct that had been rebuilt wi...