“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of the first and second century in order to give concreteness and substance to the Jesus who, as the Messiah, had appeared to Paul and his fellow apostles in ecstatic visions.” MythApostlesMessiahVisionsUnreliableJewsHistoricity Of JesusChrist MythJesus MythChrist Myth TheoryHistoricity Of The GospelsEcstatic VisionsJewish MessiahPaul S Visions Author:Alvar Ellegård
“Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning…” MythApostlesMessiahVisionsUnreliableJewsHistoricity Of JesusChrist MythJesus MythChrist Myth TheoryHistoricity Of The GospelsEcstatic VisionsJewish MessiahPaul S Visions Book:Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony Source: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony