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Pilate saith, "What is truth?" (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Otherwise, I was going to read Bart Erhman’s “Did Jesus Exist?” book next. Maybe I’ll check for reviews first this time, but what are your suggestions for historical Jesus stuff?

Honestly, I probably couldn't recommend a better source. Not because that's necessarily the best around, but because that was probably the most recent book on Christology I read, and I read it back when I was in college. XD

Ehrman's work is very much within the academic consensus about the historical nature of Jesus. Forgery And Counter-Forgery is the only other book of his I read (also largely on early Christianity), and I remember enjoying it very much.

I probably wouldn't even be aware of Aslan's work except that it became infamous in like, my first or second year of college (and that a few of the arguments presented, such as Jesus as an anti-Roman rebel, are regularly floated online).