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OverviewAI-generated
The historical Jesus was a male Jewish preacher, social activist, and healer who worked in Galilee and Judaea. Born in Nazareth or Bethlehem, he was the son of Mary and a student of John the Baptist. His students included James the Just and Saint Peter. He spoke Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, and Koine Greek. Jesus died in Jerusalem by crucifixion, a form of capital punishment, on either April 7, 30, or April 3, 33.
He is identified as the same person as Jesus and Jesus in Islam, and is part of the Holy Family. The subject is distinct from the broader topic of the historicity of Jesus.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The mission of Jesus
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1988-08
Discography
- Liquidizer1989
- Never Enough1989
- The Food Christmas EP 19891989
- Doubt1991
- Perverse1993
- Already1997
- London2001
- How’s This Even Going Down?2016
- Passages2018
- Liquidizer 20192019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 132
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,767x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,194x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,176x
- UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 6,039x
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Quotes
- “Thus each successive epoch of theology found its own thoughts in Jesus; that was, indeed, the only way in which it could make Him live. But it was not only each epoch that found its reflection in Jesus; each individual created Him in accordance with his own character. There is no historical task which so reveals a man's true self as the writing of a Life of Jesus.”
- “The ideal "Life of Jesus" [biography] at the close of the nineteenth century is the "Life" which Heinrich Julius Holtzmann did not write — but which can be pieced together from his commentary on the synoptic gospels and his new testament theology. It is ideal because, for one thing, it is unwritten, and arises only in the idea of the reader by the aid of his own imagination, and, for another, because it is traced only in the most general outline.”
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Encyclopedic overview
The term historical Jesus refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to traditionally religious interpretations. It considers the historical and cultural contexts in which Jesus lived.
Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and the idea that Jesus was a mythical figure has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a fringe theory. Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: his baptism and his crucifixion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “historical Jesus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.