"First, the New Testament Gospels are now viewed as useful, if not essentially reliable, historical sources. Gone is t…"

"Why then do we call them Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Because sometime in the second century, when proto-orthodox C…"

"Scholars who classify the Gospels as “fiction” generally hold that the Gospel authors were intentionally writing fict…"

"Many scholars find strong parallels between Raglan’s “hero myth” analysis and the Jesus story of the New Testament. […"

"Robert Price goes so far as to argue that every aspect of the Jesus story found in the Gospels fits the “mythic hero …"

"If Jesus performed the feats attributed to him in the Gospels, should we not expect that he would have caught the att…"

"[G. A.] Wells argues that the Gospels contain much that is demonstrably legendary, and they are directed by theologic…"

"[G. A.] Wells explains Jesus as a mythical figure arising from Paul's mysticism, for whom other late first-century Ch…"

"[Per G. A. Wells and Earl Doherty] the Gospels later created a historical narrative around Paul’s mythological savior…"

"Christ myth theorists argue that Paul views Jesus as a cosmic savior figure, along the lines of a mystery-religion de…"