This version is considered to be the closest to the original - the ... would not have connected Jesus' execution to Roman leaders. These writers presented Jesus as a real historical person.

Have you ever wondered how the historical figure known as Jesus was actually referred to in his own time and place? Hint: It wasn't by that name. So then, what was Jesus' real name, and how did it ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and ... from which Jesus quotes, the original Isaiah of ...