![]() Though certainly provocative, all three theories are plausible in their strongest points when placed in the context of recent studies. ![]() ![]() The historical Jesus was more likely a Cynic philosopher than, for instance, a Jewish reformer, Mack says. Mack said Mark marvelously combined into one dramatic, apocalyptic story the images from “the Christ cult” and various Jesus movements whose social situations determined how they celebrated their founder-teacher. Mack says the pioneering Gospel of Mark is more a work of fiction than ever before suspected, including the stories of Judas the betrayer and the Last Supper. John Dominic Crossan argues that the apocryphal Gospel of Peter, discovered in 1886 and previously dismissed as a 2nd-Century rewrite of the 1st-Century Gospels, was instead an early resource for all four New Testament Gospels in their stories of Jesus’ trial, crucifixion and resurrection.īurton L. ![]() Jane Schaberg says that the Nativity accounts in Matthew and Luke really tried to explain away a tradition about the illegitimate birth of Jesus and did not intend to describe a miraculous virginal conception, despite the unanimous understanding of the latter by the early churches. ![]()
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