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José Vieira's avatar

Interesting (in a particularly challenging way for Catholic me)

I wonder to what extent this analysis would survive extension to apocryphal gospels, which seem like a natural place to cross-check any sort of "conspiracy" theory

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Tre Jones's avatar

Have you read On the Historicity of Jesus (https://www.amazon.com/Historicity-Jesus-Might-Reason-Doubt/dp/1909697494/)? You might get a lot out of this work, which attempts to test the question in a Bayesian framework and goes into great detail on various textual evidence.

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