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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.205527.20951@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:55:27 GMT
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- In article <63119@mimsy.umd.edu> mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes:
- >Albert Schweitzer had these books pegged years before they were written.
- >There is no historical Jesus-- at least, there is no Jesus which a historian
- >can reconstruct. Only the Jesus of religion has been left to us.
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- Er, A. S is a little suspect since he wishes to preserve his religion
- when arguing (not that this distracts from his greatest, less take his
- "missionary zeal"). I think it better that historians decide on facts
- related to history. The closest non-Christian source to the time of
- the early gospels is Josephus, and he got most of his facts from the
- libraries (i.e., official Roman documents) maintained in Rome.
-