Abstract

Biblical scholars are convinced that Jesus existed. While they disagree on several matters of central importance to the understanding of Jesus and early Christianity, this is a crucial point of considerable agreement. The quest for historical Jesus is not a quest for his existence as such, but for the more precise contours of his person and career. The search for the historical Jesus is beset with a number of ways of conceptualizing the entire enterprise of historical reconstruction. In order to faithfully reconstruct and reconfigure the history behind this kind of textual writings and determine the historicity of Jesus, this chapter poses questions concerning their reliability, sifting through their literary and ideological contextuality with the aim of moving into the realm of the extra-textual, diachronic reality. It inquires into the genre, date, location, and dependence of the writings, before asking about their referential character in regard to the historical Jesus. Keywords:Biblical scholars; Christianity; existed; historicity; Jesus; reliability; textual writings

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