"What a tangled web we weave when we practice to believe"

"Various hearers of Jesus may well be imagined as unwittingly embellishing their Lord’s teachings as they meant to do …"

"Generations of Rationalists and freethinkers have held that Jesus Christ corresponds to no historical character: Ther…"

"I am not trying to say that there was a single origin of the Christian savior Jesus Christ, and that origin is pure m…"

"Is it ...possible that beneath and behind the stained-glass curtain of Christian legend stands the dim figure of a hi…"

"My point here is simply that, even if there was a historical Jesus lying back of the gospel Christ, he can never be r…"

"If someone charges that my endeavor here is wholly speculative, I congratulate him on his grasp of the obvious."

"I find myself more and more attracted to the theory, once vigorously debated by scholars, now smothered by tacit cons…"

"Links in the gospels, e.g., with Herod the Great, Joseph Caiaphas, and Pontius Pilate, are so problematical on intern…"

"I realized, after studying much previous research on the question [of Jesus], that virtually every story in the gospe…"