The clouding of historical vs mythological is interesting. I wonder if theres a bio of Jesus purely based off actual evidence and records that can be substantiated.
I actually stupidly chose Jesus as a historical figure to write a proper primary sources only paper thinking there would be a breadth of info on the guy… and found out the hard way that from a historically factual standpoint all we’ve got is he probably existed, was baptized, and was executed. Straight up all weve got is what roman records gave us and one painting.
Substantiation is difficult because we’re talking about a late Judaean prophet, but this piece explores Jesus in the context of Roman-occupied Judah, when there were many preachers predicting the end of the world and the salvation of the Jews; Jesus’ movement outlasted his death.
Esoterica has an hour-long video on the historical Jesus, built on primary sources: link
The clouding of historical vs mythological is interesting. I wonder if theres a bio of Jesus purely based off actual evidence and records that can be substantiated.
I actually stupidly chose Jesus as a historical figure to write a proper primary sources only paper thinking there would be a breadth of info on the guy… and found out the hard way that from a historically factual standpoint all we’ve got is he probably existed, was baptized, and was executed. Straight up all weve got is what roman records gave us and one painting.
Painting?
Substantiation is difficult because we’re talking about a late Judaean prophet, but this piece explores Jesus in the context of Roman-occupied Judah, when there were many preachers predicting the end of the world and the salvation of the Jews; Jesus’ movement outlasted his death.
Esoterica has an hour-long video on the historical Jesus, built on primary sources: link