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| Author | George Albert Wells |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Hardcover/Paper |
| Pages | 256 pages |
| ISBN | 0-87975-395-1 |
| OCLC | 137341896 |
Did Jesus Exist? is a 1975 book written by the modern German language teacher and amateur historian George Albert Wells who speculated on the evidence of Jesus Christ. Wells argues there was no historical evidence of Jesus existing.[1][2] A revised second edition was published in 1986.
Wells has since modified his position, and in 2003 stated that he now disagrees with Robert M. Price on the information about Jesus being "all mythical".[3] Wells now believes that the Jesus of the gospels is obtained by attributing the supernatural traits of the Pauline epistles to the human preacher of Q source.[4]
- ^ "Did Jesus Exist?". Prometheus Books. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ^ Robinson, John (1976). "Review: Did Jesus Exist?". Journal of Theological Studies. Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ Can We Trust the New Testament? by George Albert Wells (Nov 26, 2003) ISBN 0812695674 pages 49-50: "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 Jesus Legend (1996) and The Jesus Myth (199a) given in this section of the present work makes it clear that I no longer maintain this position", page 50 states that Wells does not agree with Price: "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."
- ^ Can We Trust the New Testament? by George Albert Wells (Nov 26, 2003) ISBN 0812695674 page 43 states: "In the gospels, the two Jesus figures - the human preacher of Q and the supernatural personage of the early epistles who sojourned briefly on Earth as a man and then, rejected, returned to heaven - have been fused into one. The Galilean preacher of Q has been given a salvific death and resurrection."