The Historical Christ
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Upper-level students and researchers in the history of Christianity and the early church
- Self-learners interested in the historical-critical method of biblical study
- Readers in theology or classics courses who need original English-language materials
- Readers wishing to understand the discussion of Jesus's historicity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking contemporary scholarly consensus or the latest research reviews
- General readers without a background in religious history who want a popular introduction
- Readers who find English reading difficult and do not wish to use reference tools
Reading tips
- First read an introduction to the composition of the Gospels and the value of historical sources, then proceed to the main text
- Annotate the sources and steps of inference the author uses as you read, distinguishing evidence from judgment
- Read alongside contemporary works on the historical Jesus, noting the era-specific differences in method
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1856–1924) was a British scholar. Owing to the limited materials available in this database, details of his life, education and appointments are not found in the existing records. The representative work currently traceable to him is The Historical Christ. Judging from its title, the book deals with the historical questions surrounding the origins of Christianity and belongs to the field of religious history and biblical studies, generally addressed to readers interested in the historical investigation of the life of Jesus. Because of the limited sources, Conybeare's writing style and specific scholarly influence cannot be reliably described here; readers who wish to know more may consult the work itself and the relevant history of scholarship.
