Pretty much all mainstream historians recognize the real existence of Jesus the man; whether you believe he was the divine son of Jehovah is, of course, quite another matter.
Wow, it's not my impression from the (rather extensive) reading I've done that there's the kind of consensus you're suggesting. I'm not saying that there was absolutely no historical reality to the Jesus myth. I'm just that I have my doubts that any man that the Biblical accounts are describing was much like our surviving accounts, and I suspect that reports of different men were conflated in the Biblical accounts.
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Date: 2005-04-13 03:15 pm (UTC)Wow, it's not my impression from the (rather extensive) reading I've done that there's the kind of consensus you're suggesting. I'm not saying that there was absolutely no historical reality to the Jesus myth. I'm just that I have my doubts that any man that the Biblical accounts are describing was much like our surviving accounts, and I suspect that reports of different men were conflated in the Biblical accounts.