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432:(1999) given in this section of the present work makes it clear that I no longer maintain this position. The weakness of my earlier position was pressed upon me by J.D.G. Dunn, who objected that we really cannot plausibly assume that such a complex of traditions as we have in the gospels and their sources could have developed within such a short time from the early epistles without a historical basis (Dunn, 1985, p. 29). 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. The essential point, as I see it, is that the Q material, whether or not it suffices as evidence of Jesus's historicity, refers to a personage who is not to be identified with the dying and rising Christ of the early epistles. ( 1421:
believe the accounts of the Gospels only if they are independently confirmed. He points out that it is acknowledged by all biblical scholars that the earliest Christian writers—Paul and other epistle writers—wrote before the Gospels were composed. ...Wells maintains that they do not provide any support for the thesis that he lived early in the first century. Thus, those Pauline letters now admitted to be genuine by most scholars, and those letters that are considered probably or possibly authentic, are silent about the parents of Jesus, the place of his birth, his trial before Pilate, the place of his crucifixion, and his ethical teachings.
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and Boyd are particularly concerned to refute the standpoint of those in category 1 of these 3, and classify me as one of them , as "the leading contemporary Christ myth theorist" (p. 168n). In fact, however, I have expressly stated in my books of 1996, 1999, and 2004 that I have repudiated this theory, ...I have never espoused this view, not even in my pre-1996 Jesus books, where I did deny Jesus's historicity. Although I have always allowed that Paul believed in a Jesus who, fundamentally supernatural, had nevertheless been incarnated on Earth as a man.
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to heaven—have been condensed into one. The preacher has been given a salvific death and resurrection, and these have been set not in an unspecified past (as in the early epistles) but in a historical context consonant with the Galilean preaching. The fusion of the two figures will have been facilitated by the fact that both owe quite a lot of their substance in the documents—to ideas very important in the Jewish Wisdom literature. (
1051:, 59 (2006) pp. 379–389. Wells relates Schopenhauer's view of the primacy of the will to Albert Schweitzer's claiming that the will is a transcendent reality at the basis of self-consciousness that provides immediate certainties — allowing us to connect with the "mighty spiritual force streaming forth from ", needing no longer to rely on the uncertain results of historical criticism concerning Jesus's message. 451:: "he Galilean and the Cynic elements ... may contain a core of reminiscences of an itinerant Cynic-type Galilean preacher (who, however, is certainly not to be identified with the Jesus of the earliest Christian documents)." Sayings and memories of this preacher may have been preserved in the "Q" document that is hypothesized as the source of many "sayings" of Jesus found in both gospels of 560:. 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 provided an answer to these points in an article in 1568:(1999), Wells ...now accepts that there is some historical basis for the existence of Jesus, derived from the lost early "gospel" "Q" (the hypothetical source used by Matthew and Luke). Wells believes that it is early and reliable enough to show that Jesus probably did exist, although this Jesus was not the Christ that the later canonical Gospels portray. 444:, that "Paul sincerely believed that the evidence (not restricted to the Wisdom literature) pointed to a historical Jesus who had lived well before his own day; and I leave open the question as to whether such a person had in fact existed and lived the obscure life that Paul supposed of him. (There is no means of deciding this issue.)" 1390:
concerning a recently deceased historical individual. The influence of the Wisdom literature is undeniable; only assessment of what it amounted to still divides opinion. ...The Jewish literature describes Wisdom as God's chief agent, a member of his divine council, etc., and this implies supernatural, but not, I agree, divine status.
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The updated position taken by Wells was interpreted by other scholars as an "about-face", abandoning his initial thesis in favor of accepting the existence of a historical Jesus. However, Wells insisted that this figure of late first-century gospel stories is distinct from the sacrificial Christ myth
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distinguish (pp. 24f) three broad categories of judgment, other than their own, concerning Jesus: 1. that "the Jesus tradition is virtually—perhaps entirely—fictional." 2. that Jesus did exist ... 3. that a core of historical facts about the real historical Jesus can be disclosed by research... Eddy
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and other early Christian documents, and that these two figures have different sources before being fused in Mark, writing, "if I am right, against Doherty and Price - it is not all mythical." Wells notes that he belongs in the category of those who argue that Jesus did exist, but that reports about
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I introduce here the most influential mythicists who claim to be 'scholars', though I would question their competence and qualifications. was convinced that there was no historical Jesus, and wrote more than one book to this effect. More recently, he modified his views, especially in the light of
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rom the mid-1990s I became persuaded that many of the gospel traditions are too specific in their references to time, place, and circumstances to have developed in such a short time from no other basis, and are better understood as traceable to the activity of a Galilean preacher of the early first
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What we have in the gospels is surely a fusion of two originally quite independent streams of tradition, ...the Galilean preacher of the early first century who had met with rejection, and the supernatural personage of the early epistles, who sojourned briefly on Earth and then, rejected, returned
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According to Wells they also admit that there is much in these accounts that is legend and that the Gospel stories are shaped by the writers' theological motives. Furthermore, the evidence provided by the Gospels is exclusively Christian. Given this situation, Wells says, a rational person should
424:, German for ‘source’). Q supplied the gospels of Matthew and Luke with much of their material concerning Jesus’s Galilean preaching. 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 the 1531:
Paul sincerely believed that the evidence (not restricted to the Wisdom literature) pointed to a historical Jesus who had lived well before his own day; and I leave open the question as to whether such a person had in fact existed and lived the obscure life that Paul supposed of him. (There is no
1466:—may mislead potential readers into supposing that I still denied the historicity of the gospel Jesus. These titles were chosen because I regarded (and still do regard) the virgin birth, much in the Galilean ministry, the crucifixion around A.D. 30 under Pilate, and the resurrection—as legendary. 419:
I propose here that the disparity between the early documents and the gospels is explicable if the Jesus of the former is not the same person as the Jesus of the latter. Some elements in the ministry of the gospel Jesus are arguably traceable to the activity of a Galilean preacher of the early
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In his early trilogy (1971, 1975, 1982), Wells argued that the gospel Jesus is an entirely mythical expansion of a Jewish Wisdom figure—the Jesus of the early epistles—who lived in some past, unspecified time period. In addition, Wells wrote, the texts are exclusively Christian and theologically
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epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the gospel figure of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades. Rather, the early Christian epistles present him "as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some
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on the information about Jesus being "all mythical". Wells believed that the Jesus of the gospels is obtained by attributing the supernatural traits of the Pauline epistles to the human preacher of Q. In 2012, Wells reaffirmed that he agreed that Jesus existed and acknowledged he had changed his
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criticizes Wells' lack of expertise and objectivity: "Wells is not a New Testament specialist at all but a professor of German and a former chairman of the Rationalist Press Association. He has written several books rejecting the historicity of Jesus, a position almost no New Testament scholar
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century, the personage represented in Q (the inferred non-Markan source, not extant, common to Matthew and Luke; cf. above, p. 2), which may be even earlier than the Paulines. This is the position I have argued in my books of 1996, 1999, and 2004, although the titles of the first two of these—
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I have argued that there is good reason to believe that the Jesus of Paul was constructed largely from musing and reflecting on a supernatural 'Wisdom' figure, amply documented in the earlier Jewish literature, who sought an abode on Earth, but was there rejected, rather than from information
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This earliest literature includes, additionally to the genuine Paulines, three post-Paulines ascribed to Paul (2 Thessalonians, Colossians and Ephesians) and also the letter to the Hebrews, the epistle of James, the first epistle of Peter, the three epistles of John and the book of
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Some mythicists (the early G. A. Wells and Alvar Ellegard) thought that the first Christians had in mind Jesus who had lived as a historical figure, just not of the recent past, much as the average Greek believed Hercules and Achilles really lived somewhere back there in the
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under Pilate is not an historical account, writing, "I regarded (and still do regard) the virgin birth, much in the Galilean ministry, the crucifixion around A.D. 30 under Pilate, and the resurrection—as legendary". Many scholars still note Wells as a mythicist.
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Wells interprets Paul as concluding that Christ had been born, lived and died on earth at an unknown time in the past, though he opts for Paul locating this during the reign of Alexander Janneus (103-76 BCE), known to have crucified hundreds of his rabbinic
554:(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, 1978:(Harper & Row, 1987), on the 1985 debate of Antony Flew versus Gary Habermas at Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA), the Baptist College of the American evangelist Jerry Falwell. (A revised and amplified version of 1500:
Now that I have allowed this in my two most recent relevant books ...it will not do to dub me a "mythicist" tout court. Moreover, my revised standpoint obviates the criticism ...which J. D. G Dunn levelled at me in
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G. A. Wells, the current and longstanding doyen of modern Jesus mythicists. Wells' invaluable work has influenced an entire generation of those who research and write on this subject.
323:-sage type preacher. This new stance has been interpreted as Wells changing his position to accept the existence of a historical Jesus. In 2003, Wells stated that he disagreed with 2462: 867:(Pemberton, 1987). More than half the book (p. 123-259) is Wells's presentation of Robertson's work: ch. 7, "The Critic of Christianity", and ch. 8, "The Philosopher" 981: 531:
endorses, even those who are radically opposed to Christianity." Wells featured in the controversial Channel 4 television series about the historicity of Jesus,
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f we trace Christianity back to Jesus ben Pandera or an Essene Teacher of Righteousness in the first century BCE, we still have a historical Jesus. (pp. 387f)
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With this, Wells allowed for the possibility that the central figure of the gospel stories may partly be based on a historical character from first-century
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has called Wells "the most articulate contemporary defender of the non-historicity thesis." Wells' claim of a mythical Jesus has received support from
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R. E. Witt, "Reviewed Work: 'The Jesus of the Early Christians' by G. A. Wells" The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 92 (1972), pp. 223-225.
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said that although "Wells's thesis is controversial and not widely accepted," his "argument against the historicity of Jesus is sound".
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Wells's fundamental observation is to suggest that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the
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For a more brief statement of his position, Wells refers readers to his article, "Jesus, Historicity of" in Tom Flynn's
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Jesus are so unreliable that we can know little or nothing about him. Wells argues, for example, that the story of the
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motivated, and therefore a rational person should believe the gospels only if they are independently confirmed.
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Critique of Pure Verbiage, Essays on Abuses of Language in Literary, Religious, & Philosophical Writings
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Jesus is a composite from two sources: Hebrew wisdom and Galilean miracle-worker/cynic-sage preacher
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Wells' major works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German language thought and letters are
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rather than a historical figure, a theory that was pioneered by German biblical scholars such as
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Though Professor Wells has written a shrewd, challenging and entertaining book, his case fails.
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Frend, W. H. C. (April 1972). "Review of 'The Jesus of the Early Christians.' by G. A. Wells".
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Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
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Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
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Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
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David Aikman, The Delusion of Disbelief (Nashville: Tyndale House Publishers, 2008), 201.
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Can We Trust the New Testament?: Thoughts on the Reliability of Early Christian Testimony
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Van Voorst, Robert E (2003). "Nonexistence Hypothesis". In Houlden, James Leslie (ed.).
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in 1971. He is best known as an advocate of the thesis that Jesus is essentially a
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of these earliest Christians was not based on a historical character, but a pure
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Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems
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G.A. Wells, "Ehrman on the Historicity of Jesus and Early Christian Thinking",
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G.A. Wells, "Ehrman on the Historicity of Jesus and Early Christian Thinking",
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However, Wells' conclusions have been criticized by biblical scholars and
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Belief and Make-Believe: Critical Reflections on the Sources of Credulity
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The Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt
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Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence
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first century, who figures in what is known as Q (an abbreviation for
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After reviewing criticisms from several authors, atheist philosopher
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George Albert Wells, Emeritus Professor 22 May 1926-23 January 2017
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The Origins of Christianity: From the Pagan and Jewish Backgrounds
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Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
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The best-known mythicist of modem times ...is George A. Wells.
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Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, Ethics and Society
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What's in a Name? Reflections on Language, Magic and Religion
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J.M. Robertson, 1856-1933, Liberal, Rationalist, and Scholar
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The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present
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and others. The classical historian R. E. Witt, reviewing
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Herder and After: A Study in the Development of Sociology
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unspecified period in the past". Wells believed that the
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Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia
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Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia
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British professor of German and rationalist (1926–2017)
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relatively recent work on what many scholars call 'Q'.
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From the late 1990s, Wells said that the hypothetical
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Wells (Vanuatuan politician) 19:For the Canadian Anglican bishop, see 2311:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors 1040:"Don Cupitt's Religion of Language", 951:"Miracles and the Nature of Truth,", 639:(Rationalist Press Association, 1999) 112:University of London, Bern University 7: 1786:Flemming, Brain (July–August 2005). 1547:(2003). James Leslie Houlden (ed.). 1256: 1254: 1107:from the original on 9 November 2020 1058:(Prometheus, 2007), pp. 446–451 801:(South Place Ethical Society, 2000) 27:. For the Vanuatuan politician, see 1003:(Pemberton, 1987), pp. 123–196 925:German Life and Letters, New Series 23:. For the American politician, see 2080:People whose existence is disputed 1749:Price, Robert (Winter 1999–2000). 14: 2368:The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross 704:The Historical Evidence for Jesus 650:The Jesus of the Early Christians 609:(Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978) 505:The Jesus of the Early Christians 339:, near London. He studied at the 290:The Jesus of the Early Christians 198:The Historical Evidence for Jesus 186:The Jesus of the Early Christians 1838:10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.345 1587:. Open Court, 2009, pp. 327–328. 1581:The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief 1293:The Historical Jesus: Five Views 1056:The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief 660:. Out of print, not republished. 440:Wells clarified his position in 284:, he turned to the study of the 1222:Can We Trust the New Testament? 1202:Can We Trust the New Testament? 1144:Wells, G. A. (September 1999). 932:Journal of the History of Ideas 409:Can We Trust the New Testament? 223:Can We Trust the New Testament? 1951:"Earliest Christianity" (1999) 1864:. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 1532:means of deciding this issue.) 1402:Martin, Michael (March 1993). 1374:"Earliest Christianity (1999)" 1289:"Jesus at the Vanishing Point" 1224:by George Albert Wells (2003) 1204:by George Albert Wells (2003) 335:. 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George A. Wells (bishop)
George A. Wells (politician)
George A. Wells (Vanuatuan politician)
London
Bruno Bauer
Paul-Louis Couchoud
Arthur Drews
Ludwig Feuerbach
Albert Kalthoff
Albert Schweitzer
William Benjamin Smith
David Strauss
William Wrede
Historical criticism
Did Jesus Exist?
Earl Doherty
Alvar EllegÄrd
R. Joseph Hoffmann
Michael Martin
Birkbeck, University of London
Johann Gottfried Herder
Franz Grillparzer
historicity of Jesus
mythical
Bruno Bauer
Arthur Drews
Q document
gospels
Galilean
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