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I don't think it is a fringe belief. I have not heard of such a consensus among "most scholars of antiquity." What are you basing that on? A discussion I heard

I don't think it is a fringe belief. I have not heard of such a consensus among "most scholars of antiquity." What are you basing that on? A discussion I heard in the past few years which mentions that is an open question is here: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-evidence-for-the-history-of-jesus/ https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-evidence-f...

tsimionescu 4y ago
The Wikipedia article [0] has a lot of quotes pointing to this. Even modern supporters of the theory, like Robert M. Price, recognize it as a fringe position within academia. Of course, it is an open question in some sense, as the evidence is nowhere near as powerful as, say, Newton's laws of motion, or the existence of Julius Caesar. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#CITEREFStanton2002 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#CITEREF...