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This 4 page paper provides a portrait of the historical Jesus which situates him in the Jewish society of his time and helps explains the nature of his life and accounts for his tragic death as a crucified Messiah. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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be traced to the work Hermann Samuel Reimarus (Strauss, 1860). Looking at the historical Jesus is an attempt to use evidence and scientific methods and as such it separates itself
from the religious views which do not seek the same level of proof or evidence. Historical Jesus appear to have grown up in a poorer area of Palestine, learned and
bettered himself, studying the scripture and becoming literate, possibly in Hebrew as well as Aramaic, been active in the Jewish faith attending Synagogue and suffered death due to his ability
to unpopularity with the Romans due to his preaching.. There are many unknown elements, there is even disagreement over the year in
which he was born Theissen and Merz (1998) argue that there is no certain date, but point out that the gospels of Matthew and Luke both agree that the birth
was during the lifetime of Herod the Great (Matthew 2.1, and Luke 1.5), this means that his birth was likely to be before the spring of year 4 BCE1.
However, there is also some date of the reliability of the chronological ordering of events in Matthew (Theissen and Merz, 1998). In Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to
the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however even with some uncertainty even if there is some confusion, but most
texts agree the birth was likely to be before 4 BCE (Johnson, 1986). This gives us a timescale and as such as social and political context in the time Jesus
lived and helps to understand the nature of his life. Jesus was a Jew, this was a population that historically had
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