Questioning the Historicity of Jesus

Raphael Lataster

ISBN 10: 9004397930 / ISBN 13: 9789004397934

Published by Brill, NL, 2019

About this Item

This volume moves beyond the mainstream scholarly scepticism over the Christ of Faith and considers if there is sufficient evidence to establish the existence of the more mundane Historical Jesus. Using the logical tools of the analytic philosopher, Lataster finds that the relevant sources are unreliable as historical documents, and that the key method of those purporting that the Historical Jesus existed is to appeal to sources that do not exist. Considering an ancient hypothesis suggesting that Jesus began as a celestial messiah that certain Second Temple Jews already believed in, and was later allegorised in the Gospels, Lataster discovers that it is more reasonable to at least be agnostic over Jesus' historicity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Questioning the Historicity of Jesus
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004397930
• ISBN 13: 9789004397934
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 3.5H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 3.5 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 914 grams

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Synopsis

This volume moves beyond the mainstream scholarly scepticism over the Christ of Faith and considers if there is sufficient evidence to establish the existence of the more mundane Historical Jesus. Using the logical tools of the analytic philosopher, Lataster finds that the relevant sources are unreliable as historical documents, and that the key method of those purporting that the Historical Jesus existed is to appeal to sources that do not exist. Considering an ancient hypothesis suggesting that Jesus began as a celestial messiah that certain Second Temple Jews already believed in, and was later allegorised in the Gospels, Lataster discovers that it is more reasonable to at least be agnostic over Jesus’ historicity.

About the Author

Raphael Lataster, Ph.D. (2017), University of Sydney, is an associate lecturer at that university. He has published monographs and articles on God’s existence and Jesus’ existence, including The Case Against Theism (Springer, 2018).