How Much Distance Is There Between the Jesus of the Gospels and the Jesus of History?
Reza Aslan and other religious scholars have argued that there is a virtually unbridgeable gap between the Gospels and actual historical events. But is the gap as vast as they claim?
Many scholars assume there is a vast gap between the actual Jesus of history and the imagined Jesus of the Gospels. But is there really that much space between the Gospels and history? -
“The more I probed the Bible,” Reza Aslan declares in the introduction to his bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, “the more distance I discovered between the Jesus of the gospels and the Jesus of history” (xix).
The result of this discovery — at least in Aslan’s estimation — is that the New…
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