Jeesus-myyttihypoteesit
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Jeesus-myytti on hypoteesi, jonka mukaan henkilö, jonka tunnemme Jeesus Nasaretilaisena, ei ole historiallinen hahmo vaan myytti. Joidenkin Jeesus-myytin kannattajien mukaan Jeesus on antiikkisen mytologian konstruktio, kun taas jotkut uskovat Jeesukseen liitettyjen ominaisuuksien olevan aiemmilta historian ja taruston henkilöiltä lainattuja. Ensimmäisiä hypoteesin kannattajia olivat ranskalaiset valistusajattelijat Constantin-François Volney ja Charles François Dupuis vuonna 1970. Sittemmin hypoteesiä ovat elvytteneet mm. Earl Doherty, Robert M. Price ja George Albert Wells, mutta hypoteesin painoarvo historian- ja raamatuntutkijoiden parissa on olematon.1
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- ^ Virtually all biblical scholars acknowledge that there is enough information from ancient non-Christian sources to give lie to the myth (still, however, widely believed in popular circles and by some scholars in other fields - see esp. G. A. Wells) which claims that Jesus never existed., Green, Joel B, Mcknight, I, and Marshall, Howard (editors), Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels: A Compendium Of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, page 292 (New England:1992) ISBN 978-0851106465. See however the contrary veiw expressed By Historian and biblical scholar, Charles Guignebert, in note 71 below.
The denial of Jesus' historicity has never convinced any large number of people, in or out of technical circles, nor did it in the first part of the century., Weaver, Walter P, 'The historical Jesus in the twentieth century, 1900-1950', page 71 (Pennsylvania:1999) ISBN 978-1563382802
Among New Testament scholars and historians, the theory of Jesus' nonexistence remains effectively dead as a scholarly question., Van Voorst, Robert E, 'NonExistence Hypothesis', in Houlden, James Leslie (editor), Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia, page 660 (Santa Barbara: 2003) ISBN 978-1576078570
