Abstract

Abstract The gospels of the new testament have always been cherished by christians wanting to know what to believe and how to live. as we have seen, though, they are somewhat problematic for historians who want to know what really happened during the life of Jesus. We will need to consider carefully how to make appropriate use of these documents, if we want to reconstruct the life of the historical Jesus. That will be a task we undertake later. Before moving there, we should look around a bit to see if there are other sources outside of the New Testament Gospels for knowing what Jesus said and did—other accounts of his life that might provide us with independent information that is either less theologically motivated or, at the least, motivated by different concerns. Such sources might provide a kind of point of comparison for us, a check on the theological tendencies of the more familiar books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In this chapter we’ll consider accounts of Jesus produced by authors who did not believe in him.

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