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- Part of
- historicity of Jesus
- Given name
- Yeshua
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Bethlehem
- Place of death
- Jerusalem
- Mother
- Mary
- Sibling
- Simon, brother of Jesus
- Occupation
- healer
- Languages spoken
- Koine Greek
- Native language
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
- Religion
- Judaism
- Student of
- John the Baptist
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Image
- Good shepherd 02b close slightly improved.jpg
- Work location
- Judaea
- Said to be same as
- Jesus in Islam
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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.