...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.

Reza Aslan

Mots clés truth history scholarship fact bible biblical-scholarship

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Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.

Albert Schweitzer

Mots clés history scholarship praise jesus-myth historical-jesus historicity biblical-criticism historicity-of-jesus bruno-bauer criticism-of-the-gospel-history life-of-jesus

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Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Richard Levins

Mots clés biology humanity scholarship suffering university academy

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