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that the messiah would be born in bethlehem 396 397 the differences found in the gospel accounts are typical of ancient historical biographies 398 the contradictions were apparent to early christians with harmonizations present in the infancy gospels of thomas and the gospel of james which are dated to the 2nd century ad 399 400 conservative scholars argue that despite the uncertainty of the details the gospel birth narratives trace back to historical or at least much earlier pre gospel traditions 401 402 403 404 for instance according to ben witherington what we find in matthew and luke is not the story of a god descending to earth and in the guise of a man mating with a human woman but rather the story of a miraculous conception without the aid of any man divine or otherwise as such this story is without precedent either in jewish or pagan literature 405 sanders says that the genealogies of jesus are based not on historical information but on the author s desire to show that jesus was the universal jewish saviour 107 in any event once the doctrine of the virgin birth of jesus became established that tradition superseded the earlier tradition that he was descended from david through joseph 406 the gospel of luke reports that jesus was a blood relative of john the baptist but scholars generally consider this connection to be invented 107 407 baptism baptism in the jordan river the river where jesus was baptized most modern scholars consider jesus s baptism to be a historical fact along with his crucifixion 8 the theologian james d g dunn states that they command almost universal assent and rank so high on the almost impossible to doubt or deny scale of historical facts that they are often the starting points for the study of the historical jesus 8 scholars adduce the criterion of embarrassment saying that early christians would not have invented a baptism that might imply that jesus committed sins and wanted to repent 408 409 according to theissen and merz jesus was inspired by john the baptist and took over from him many elements of his teaching 410 ministry in galilee most scholars hold that jesus lived in galilee and judea and did not preach or study elsewhere 411 they agree that jesus debated with jewish authorities on the subject of god performed some healings taught in parables and gathered followers 206 jesus s jewish critics considered his ministry to be scandalous because he feasted with sinners fraternized with women and allowed his followers to pluck grain on the sabbath 68 according to sanders it is not plausible that disagreements over how to interpret the law of moses and the sabbath would have led jewish authorities to want jesus killed 412 according to ehrman jesus taught that a coming kingdom was everyone s proper focus not anything in this life 413 he taught about the jewish law seeking its true meaning sometimes in opposition to traditions jesus put love at the centre of the law and following that law was an apocalyptic necessity 414 his ethical teachings called for forgiveness not judging others loving enemies and caring for the poor 415 funk and hoover note that typical of jesus were paradoxical or surprising turns of phrase such as advising one when struck on the cheek to offer the other cheek to be struck as well 416 417 the gospels portray jesus teaching in well defined sessions such as the sermon on the mount in the gospel of matthew or the parallel sermon on the plain in luke while these teaching sessions include authentic teachings of jesus theissen and merz contend that the scenes were invented by the evangelists to frame these teachings originally recorded without context 168 le donne however rejects the form critical notion that smaller units of traditions held a defined stage of circulation before the gospels composition 418 while jesus s miracles fit within the social context of antiquity he defined them differently first he attributed them to the faith of those healed second he connected them to end times prophecy 419 jesus chose twelve disciples the twelve 420 according to bart ehrman jesus s promise that the twelve would rule is historical because the twelve included judas iscariot in ehrman s view no christians would have invented a line from jesus promising rulership to the disciple who betrayed him 421 in mark the disciples play hardly any role other than a negative one while others sometimes respond to jesus with complete faith his disciples are puzzled and doubtful they serve as a foil to jesus and to other characters the failings of the disciples are probably exaggerated in mark and the disciples make a better showing in matthew and luke 422 recent studies tend to suggest that mark is not as negative towards peter as a previous generation of scholars thought 423 sanders says that jesus s mission was not about repentance although he acknowledges that this opinion is unpopular he argues that repentance appears as a strong theme only in luke that repentance was john the baptist s message and that jesus s ministry would not have been scandalous if the sinners he ate with had been repentant 424 according to theissen and merz jesus taught that god was generously giving people an opportunity to repent 425 role jesus referred to himself as a son of man in the colloquial sense of a person but scholars do not know whether he also meant himself when he referred to the heavenly son of man paul the apostle and other early christians interpreted the son of man as the risen jesus 28 dale allison argues jesus identified himself as the son of man in daniel rejecting the notion of another eschatological figure 426 the gospels refer to jesus not only as a messiah but in the absolute form as the messiah or equivalently the christ in early judaism this absolute form of the title is not found but only phrases such as his messiah the tradition is ambiguous enough to leave room for debate as to whether jesus defined his eschatological role as that of the messiah 427 the jewish messianic tradition included many different forms some of them focused on a messiah figure and others not based on the christian tradition gerd theissen advances the hypothesis that jesus saw himself in messianic terms but did not claim the title messiah 428 bart ehrman argues that jesus did consider himself to be the messiah albeit in the sense that he would be the king of the new political order that god would usher in 429 not in the sense that most people today think of the term 430 passover and crucifixion in jerusalem around ad 30 jesus and his followers travelled from galilee to jerusalem to observe passover 420 jesus caused a disturbance in the second temple 25 which was the centre of jewish religious and civil authority sanders associates it with jesus s prophecy that the temple would be totally demolished 431 jesus held a last meal with his disciples which is the origin of the sacrament of the holy eucharist according to john p meier jesus having a final meal with his disciples is generally accepted among scholars and belongs to the framework of the narrative of jesus life with a majority viewing mark 14 as substantially historical 432 the meal appears to have pointed to jesus s place in the kingdom of god when jesus probably knew he was to be killed although he may have still hoped that god might intervene 433 the gospels say that jesus was betrayed to the authorities by a disciple and many scholars consider this report to be highly reliable 165 he was executed on the orders of pontius pilate the roman prefect of judaea 25 pilate most likely saw jesus s reference to the kingdom of god as a threat to roman authority and worked with the temple elites to have jesus executed 434 the sadducean high priestly leaders of the temple more plausibly had jesus executed for political reasons than for his teaching 165 they may have regarded him as a threat to stability especially after he caused a disturbance at the second temple 165 435 other factors such as jesus s triumphal entry into jerusalem may have contributed to this decision 436 most scholars consider jesus s crucifixion to be factual because early christians would not have invented the painful death of their leader 8 437 after crucifixion the resurrection of christ from a 16th century manuscript of la passion de nostre seigneur after jesus s death his followers said he was restored to life although the exact details of their experiences are unclear the gospel reports contradict each other sanders suggests competition among those claiming to have seen him first rather than deliberate fraud while white emphasizes differences in the agendas of the evangelists 381 438 differences between accounts were a feature of ancient biographies such as the accounts of otho in suetonius and plutarch 439 another common hypothesis among historians is that all reported perceptions of jesus are confabulated or a case of mistaken identity 440 the followers of jesus formed a community to wait for his return and the founding of his kingdom 25 portraits of jesus main articles historical jesus and quest for the historical jesus modern research on the historical jesus has not led to a unified picture of the historical figure partly because of the variety of academic traditions represented by the scholars 441 given the scarcity of historical sources it is generally difficult for any scholar to construct a portrait of jesus that can be considered historically valid beyond the basic elements of his life 86 87 the portraits of jesus constructed in these quests often differ from each other and from the image portrayed in the gospels 326 442 jesus is seen as the founder of in the words of sanders a renewal movement within judaism one of the criteria used to discern historical details in the third quest is the criterion of plausibility relative to jesus s jewish context and to his influence on christianity a disagreement in contemporary research is whether jesus was apocalyptic most scholars conclude that he was an apocalyptic preacher like john the baptist and paul the apostle certain prominent north american scholars such as burton mack and john dominic crossan advocate for a non eschatological jesus one who is more of a cynic sage than an apocalyptic preacher 443 in addition to portraying jesus as an apocalyptic prophet a charismatic healer or a cynic philosopher some scholars portray him as the true messiah or an egalitarian prophet of social change 444 445 the attributes described in the portraits sometimes overlap and scholars who differ on some attributes sometimes agree on others 446 since the 18th century scholars have occasionally put forth that jesus was a political national messiah but the evidence for this portrait is negligible likewise the proposal that jesus was a zealot does not fit with the earliest strata of the synoptic tradition 165 language ethnicity and appearance further information language of jesus and race and appearance of jesus the ethnicity of jesus in art has been influenced by cultural settings 447 448 jesus grew up in galilee and much of his ministry took place there 449 the languages spoken in galilee and judea during the 1st century ad included jewish palestinian aramaic hebrew and greek with aramaic being predominant 450 451 there is substantial consensus that jesus gave most of his teachings in aramaic 452 in the galilean dialect 453 454 other than aramaic and hebrew it is likely that he was also able to speak greek 451 455 456 modern scholars agree that jesus was a jew of 1st century judea 457 ioudaios in new testament greek u is a term which in the contemporary context may refer to religion second temple judaism ethnicity of judea or both 460 461 462 in a review of the state of modern scholarship amy jill levine writes that the entire question of ethnicity is fraught with difficulty and that beyond recognizing that jesus was jewish rarely does the scholarship address what being jewish means 463 the new testament gives no description of the physical appearance of jesus before his death it is generally indifferent to racial appearances and does not refer to the features of the people it mentions 464 465 466 jesus probably looked like a typical jewish man of his time and place standing around 166 cm 5 ft 5 in tall with a thin but fit build olive brown skin brown eyes and short dark hair he also probably had a beard that was not particularly long or heavy 467 christ myth theory main article christ myth theory the christ myth theory is the hypothesis that jesus of nazareth never existed or that if he did he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of christianity and the accounts in the gospels v stories of jesus s birth along with other key events have so many mythic elements that some scholars have suggested that jesus himself was a myth 469 bruno bauer 1809 1882 taught that the first gospel was a work of literature that produced history rather than described it according to albert kalthoff 1850 1906 a social movement produced jesus when it encountered jewish messianic expectations arthur drews 1865 1935 saw jesus as the concrete form of a myth that predated christianity 470 despite arguments put forward by authors who have questioned the existence of a historical jesus virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that jesus was a historical figure and consider the myth theory to be fringe 471 religious perspectives main article religious perspectives on jesus jesus s teachings and the retelling of his life story have significantly influenced the course of human history and have directly or indirectly affected the lives of billions of people even non christians worldwide 472 473 he is considered by many people to be the most influential figure to have ever lived finding a significant place in numerous cultural contexts 474 475 apart from his own disciples and followers 476 the jews of jesus s day generally rejected him as the messiah 477 as does judaism today 478 christian theologians ecumenical councils reformers and others have written extensively about jesus over the centuries christian denominations have often been defined or characterized by their descriptions of jesus meanwhile manichaeans gnostics muslims druzes 479 the baháʼís and others have found prominent places for jesus in their religions 480 473 481 christianity main articles jesus in christianity christ title and christology the trinity is the belief in christianity that god is one god in three persons god the father god the son jesus and god the holy spirit jesus is depicted with the alpha and omega letters in the catacombs of rome from the 4th century jesus is the central figure of christianity 97 although christian views of jesus vary it is possible to summarize the key beliefs shared by the major denominations as stated in their catechetical or confessional texts 482 483 484 christian views of jesus are derived from the texts of the new testament including the canonical 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