Searching For Jesus in the Gospels
This article from the New Yorker is typical of what people see in about the state of current scholarship. Unfortunately, it is very skewed. There are many scholars who are very confident in the value of the Gospels as historical sources. There is much that we can put together and come up with an adequate understanding of who Jesus was. What about the miraculous birth and resurrection that the writer suggests are in doubt? What he neglects to mention is that Matthew and Luke have separate traditions about the miraculous birth, which adds support to the idea that something amazing happened at Jesus’ birth. And Mark’s lack of resurrection? The writer would seem to suggest that Mark ends with the crucifixion. Even without the longer ending (which I agree was added later), it is made quite clear that Jesus had risen from the dead. We must be careful to read widely and not assume that these summaries of scholarship have the complete picture.
This blogs fails to distinguish between the historical Ribi Yehoshua and the Christian J..us.
Le-havdil, A logical analysis (found in http://www.netzarim.co.il (Netzarim.co.il is the website of the only legitimate Netzarim-group)) of all extant source documents and archeology proves that the historical Ribi Yehosuha ha-Mashiakh (the Messiah) from Nazareth and his talmidim (apprentice-students), called the Netzarim, taught and lived Torah all of their lives; and that Netzarim and Christianity were always antithetical.
The original words of the pro-Torah teacher Ribi Yehoshua were redacted by Roman Hellenists, and the redaction is found in the “gospels”. J..us is described in the “gospels”, and le-havdil the teachings of the historical Torah-teacher Ribi Yehoshua from Nazareth are found in the reconstruction (using a logical and scientific methodology to create the reconstruction), Netzarim Hebrew Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM).
The historical Jew Ribi Yehoshua is not the same as the Christian “J….” The historical Ribi Yehoshua was a human.
The historical Ribi Yehoshua was enlivened after three days and three nights in the tomb. Many days later he died of his wounds.
(More details found in Netzarim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu).
Anders Branderud
I allowed your comment but I will not debate you. I will just say that biblical scholarship, conservative and liberal, would strongly disagree with you. I stand with the biblical picture of Jesus as Messiah and Son of God.
Its always great to read another balanced article about Jesus and the reliability of the Gospels 😛
Like you said its important to read widely, and not just scholars that agree with your views who usually start off with an a priori sceptical assumption from the outset.
It is important to read widely. There is a lot out there that I disagree with (some liberal, some conservative) but it is only by understanding why you believe something that you can have a solid position.