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Aug 7, 2018 · In The Jesus Legend, G.A. Wells explains how the story of Jesus developed through telling and re-telling, from an early version in the letters of Paul (who does not mention Jesus in connection with any specific time or place) to the more elaborate and detailed pictures later presented in the New Testament gospels.
2 hours ago · George Albert Wells (22 May 1926 – 23 January 2017) [1] [2] was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London.After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book The Jesus of the Early Christians in 1971. [3]
The essential point, as Wells sees it, is that this personage is not to be identified with the dying and rising Christ of the Pauline and other early documents, and that the two have quite separate origins. The Jesus of the earliest Christians did not, on this view, preach and work miracles (or what were taken for such) in Galilee, and was not ...
Mar 23, 2010 · For Wells, Paul’s Jesus was a pre-existent being who descended to earth briefly in the flesh before returning to heaven. This was the Jesus of most of the earliest Christians. He was not historical. There was one exception, and that was a Galilean community who produced Q. In sum, the religious community responsible for Q cultivated the ...
Jun 26, 2019 · Images. An illustration of a heart shape Donate An illustration of text ellipses. ... DID JESUS EXIST? Prof G.A. WELLS. Topics THE Collection opensource_image ...
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 ...
Dec 1, 2013 · In The Jesus Legend, G. A. Wells explains how the story of Jesus developed through telling and re-telling, from an early version in the letters of Paul (who does not mention Jesus in connection with any specific time or place) to the more elaborate and detailed pictures later presented in the New Testament gospels.
