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Jiang says the stable historical core is much smaller than the Bible story: Jesus was born around 4 BCE in Galilee, learned from John the Baptist, was crucified by Rome, and left a movement inherited by James the...
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Jiang says the stable historical core is much smaller than the Bible story: Jesus was born around 4 BCE in Galilee, learned from John the Baptist, was crucified by Rome, and left a movement inherited by James the Just.
"How did Jesus die for our sins? Why is there such a thing coming? It's all a miracle, okay? Meaning don't question it, just..."
"...thing that we agree on is that his teacher was John the Baptist. And John the Baptist is what we call an apocalyptic preacher,..."
"So Jesus was preaching a message that is different from John the Baptist, okay? So that's the second thing we know. The third thing..."
"The first type are thieves and bandits, all right? These are considered the lowest type of people. The second type of people are rebels,..."
"...Essenes are people who become monks, and they believe, like John the Baptist, we believe that John the Baptist was an Essene, that God..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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