Fiction and Fact, Legend and History. Is it Either / Or?

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Show Notes

This now is the 7th of 10 parts of my interview with Ben Witherington on my book Did Jesus Exist. Here there are two poignant questions, both focusing the relationship of legend and history in ancient stories about Jesus. Part of the question is whether the Gospel writers were simply riffing on (or, more cynically, ripping off) earlier stories of other amazing figures when talking about Jesus; the other is whether that has a significant bearing on how we understand what he said and and did — or on whether we think he even existed. Read by Petra Ortiz

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