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includes Jesus as teacher and prophet

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Historical Jesus scholars could stop wasting time re-inventing the wheel if they were to chew through this masterpiece!  

Wells, whom I knew personally, was for a long time the standard bearer for the controversial theory that Jesus was a completely mythic, fictive character. I used to consider that theory as eccentric nonsense, but this book forced me to see its merits and eventually to espouse it myself!

Wells compares the evolution of the Jesus story to that of the also-nonexistant William Tell. He asks how the NT could assure us that the Roman authorities never punish the innocent if they…

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