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Every single story bears the marks of fiction, with earlier versions ruling out later ones, with extrabiblical parallels providing abundant nonhistorical analogies, while current experience provides no historical parallel. The Gospels certainly do not put us in touch with the faith of the earliest Christians. They do not tell us whether the resurrection of Jesus was even part of the first Christian faith. Everywhere we have looked, we have found naught but legend and myth, fiction and redaction. (en) |
