Consensus, Disagreement, and the Criteria of Authenticity

What is it about?

Historians who study Jesus of Nazareth often use "historical tools" to try to discover what he actually said, taught, and did. Some scholars, however, reject the viability of these tools. One objection, for example, is that scholars have come to diverse, incompatible historical descriptions of Jesus. The tools don't seem to work. However, I argue against this objection and show that the diversity of conclusions about Jesus does not necessarily mean the tools are useless.

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