George Albert Wells (1926-2017), nonfiction writer
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George Albert Wells (1926-2017) was a British literary critic and nonfiction writer. In his first books on Jesus in the 1970s and 1980s, Wells embraced the Jesus Myth Theory, taking the radical position of denying any historicity to the character. In the 1990s he somehow modified his position, arguing that the Q gospel may "contain a core of reminiscences" of an itinerant Galilean miracle-worker/Cynic-sage type preacher. The reconstruction of this historical figure from the extant literature however is a hopeless task. The Jesus of the gospels was obtained by attributing the supernatural traits of the Pauline epistles to the human preacher of Q.
Works
Books
- The Jesus of the Early Christians (1971 Wells), book
- The Origins of Christianity: From the Pagan and Jewish Backgrounds (1973 Wells), book
- Did Jesus Exist? (1975 Wells), book
- The Historical Evidence for Jesus (1982 wells), book
- Who Was Jesus? A Critique of the New Testament Record (1989 Wells), book
- The Jesus Legend (1996 Wells), book
- The Jesus Myth (1999 Wells), book
- The Acts of the Apostles: A Historical Record? (2000 Wells), book
- Can We Trust the New Testament?(2004 Wells), book
- Cutting Jesus Down to Size (2009 Wells), book