User:Andrew c/Historical Jesus
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- Define Historical Jesus
- Overview of scholarly methods (criteria of embarrasment, disimilarity, multiple attestment, etc) (higher/lower criticism, redaction, form, source, etc)(archaeology/anthropology?)
- Overview of Characteristics of Historical Jesus (compact existing info)
- Name
- Birth place/date
- Family/socio-cultural background
- Language spoken
- Literacy
- Death date, place, method, possible reasons
- other?
- Modern Theories
- Apocalyptic Prophet
- Wisdom Sage
- Messiah
- Jesus-Myth
- Others?
- History of the search
- First Quest
- No Quest
- Next or second Quest
- Third Quest
What is it? (definition)
How do we know this? (overview of methods)
What do we know? (overview of Jesus' background)
What might we not know? (overview of theories)
How was this question approached historically? (history section)
Note: The 3rd overview section wouldn't be needed if the current Historical Jesus article was changed to Cultural background of Jesus.