225:. Wells is certainly one who does the hard legwork to make his case: Although an outsider to NT studies, he speaks the lingo of the field and has read deeply in its scholarship. Although most NT scholars will not (or do not) consider his work either convincing or particularly well argued." (p. 19). Wells, 86, provided an answer to these points in an article in
340:(199a) given in this section of the present work makes it clear that I no longer maintain this position", page 50 states that Wells does not agree with Price: "My present standpoint is: this complex is not all post-Pauline (Q, or at any rate parts of it, may well be as early as ca. A.D. 50); and if I am right, against Doherty and Price - it is not all mythical."
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Galilean preacher of Q has been given a salvific death
221:(2012) stated: "The best-known mythicist of modern times — at least among the NT scholars who know of any mythicists at all — is George A. Wells...He has written many books and articles advocating a mythicist position, none more incisive than his 1975 book,
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on the information about Jesus being "all mythical". Wells now believes that the Jesus of the gospels is obtained by attributing the supernatural traits of the
Pauline epistles to the human preacher of
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pages 49-50: "In my first books on Jesus, I argued that the gospel Jesus is an entirely mythical expansion of the Jesus of the early epistles. The summary of the argument of
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134:. Wells argues there was no historical evidence of Jesus existing. A revised second edition was published in 1986.
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Wells has since modified his position, and in 2003 stated that he now disagrees with
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is a 1975 book written by the modern German language teacher and amateur historian
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374:, June–July 2012, p. 58-62. It is a 5-page, 4,100-word answer to Ehrman's book.
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G.A. Wells, "Ehrman on the
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The Denial of the
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161:Abbreviations for Books of the New Testament
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352:by George Albert Wells (Nov 26, 2003)
324:by George Albert Wells (Nov 26, 2003)
701:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors
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173:The Origin and Nature of the Gospels
167:Jewish and Pagan Testimony to Jesus
130:who speculated on the evidence of
853:Works about the Christ myth theory
470:People whose existence is disputed
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758:The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
202:Index of New Testament References
27:1975 book by George Albert Wells
350:Can We Trust the New Testament?
322:Can We Trust the New Testament?
188:The Pagan and Jewish Background
298:Journal of Theological Studies
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182:Galilee and John the Baptist
765:Journal of Higher Criticism
199:Numbered List of References
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848:Books critical of religion
294:"Review: Did Jesus Exist?"
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376:Excerpts available online
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662:The God Who Wasn't There
455:Historicity of the Bible
170:Early Christian Epistles
18:Did Jesus Exist? (Wells)
858:Religious studies books
787:Joseph Estlin Carpenter
534:Charles François Dupuis
292:Robinson, John (1976).
863:Prometheus Books books
843:1975 non-fiction books
604:William Benjamin Smith
569:M. M. Mangasarian
465:Criticism of the Bible
385:, (1,000 words only).
868:1975 in Christianity
802:F. C. Conybeare
792:Shirley Jackson Case
676:Zeitgeist: The Movie
589:J. M. Robertson
244:Historicity of Jesus
191:The Debate Continues
817:T. J. Thorburn
730:The Jesus Mysteries
645:Mythicist Milwaukee
516:Paul-Louis Couchoud
450:Biblical minimalism
128:George Albert Wells
52:George Albert Wells
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609:Thomas L. Thompson
439:Christ myth theory
381:2016-03-04 at the
361:and resurrection."
269:"Did Jesus Exist?"
239:Christ myth theory
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599:Gilbert T. Sadler
460:Textual criticism
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31:Did Jesus Exist?
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744:Caesar's Messiah
737:The Pagan Christ
722:Did Jesus Exist?
669:The Pagan Christ
624:Thomas Whittaker
619:G. A. Wells
564:Samuel Lublinski
501:Thomas L. Brodie
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249:Historical Jesus
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219:Did Jesus Exist?
123:Did Jesus Exist?
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372:Free Inquiry
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807:Bart Ehrman
694:Anacalypsis
491:Bruno Bauer
399:Description
336:(1996) and
215:Bart Ehrman
837:Categories
544:Tom Harpur
479:Proponents
358:0812695674
330:0812695674
308:2007-10-17
278:2009-05-13
255:References
196:Conclusion
179:The Twelve
782:Greg Boyd
594:Acharya S
217:, in his
210:Reception
114:137341896
89:256 pages
58:Publisher
379:Archived
233:See also
155:Contents
150:Contents
144:Q source
775:Critics
724:(Wells)
158:Preface
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354:ISBN
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108:OCLC
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