Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1700s

Georg Frideric Haendel

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

Historical Jesus Studies in the 1700s--Works and Authors

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Overview

Jesus remains an important subject in the arts. The Enlightenment brought about a rationalistic approach to the gospels. By the end of the century the idea emerges that the gospels might not tell the "true" story of Jesus. Maybe Jesus was a political revolutionary, whose failure produce his reinterpetation of a religious figure (Hermann Samuel Reimarus), or maybe Jesus did not even exist a his biography was a completely mythological construct.

@2014 - Notes by Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan