![]() ![]() They are, for want of a better word, propaganda for the cause of early Christianity. They are books with a message, an announcement. In order to understand them, it is important to realise that the Gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of that word and they often have gaps at just the points where we would like to know more. Our most important resource for the study of Jesus, though, is the literature of early Christianity and especially the Gospels. But how much can we know with certainty about the Jesus of history? How reliable are the New Testament accounts about him? Opinions vary widely among scholars and students of the Bible. That such a person could have become so significant in world history is remarkable. He died an appalling, humiliating death by crucifixion, reserved by the Romans for the most contemptible criminals. Jesus did not grow up in one of the great cities of the ancient world like Rome or even Jerusalem but lived in a Galilean village called Nazareth. We know more about Jesus than we know about many ancient historical figures, a remarkable fact given the modesty of his upbringing and the humility of his death. In this section Mark Goodacre, Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Birmingham, gives a brief biography of Jesus.
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