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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]]

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Albert_Wells Wikipedia.en]


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