Remembering the Past: How does our memory work?

As a part of a curriculum, one lecture within my course on Roman Empire is about the Historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The logic is simple: Christianity emerged in the 1st century as a minor Jewish movement Read more

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Clarity Within the Background Noise: Can We Get to the Historical Jesus?

This is the last post in a series about the Historical Jesus. The basic idea is to suggest a way forward. How do historians today deal with sources about Jesus? For the last several decades scholars have applied something Read more

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In the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Oral Traditions (Were the stories about Jesus prone to change and distortion before they were written down?)

In the last post, I introduced the quest for the Historical Jesus defining it as “the reconstruction of the life and teachings of Jesus by critical historical methods, in contrast to religious interpretations”. Furthermore, I have shown the Read more

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