{"id":1597,"date":"2010-02-24T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/keener-on-the-gospels-and-the-historical-jesus\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:24:00","slug":"keener-on-the-gospels-and-the-historical-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/keener-on-the-gospels-and-the-historical-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Keener on the Gospels and the Historical Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1267035688612\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article at <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bibleinterp.com\/articles\/keener357924.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Bible and Interpretation<\/a> <\/em>(based on Craig Keener\u2019s book <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Historical-Jesus-Gospels-Craig-Keener\/dp\/0802862926?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Historical Jesus of the Gospels<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802862926\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px! important;padding-left: 0px! important;padding-right: 0px! important;padding-top: 0px! important\" width=\"1\"><\/em><\/span>) about the Gospels as sources about the historical figure of Jesus. Given the interest many readers of this blog have in this topic, I thought I should share a link!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4176740262872586509?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an article at The Bible and Interpretation (based on Craig Keener\u2019s book The Historical Jesus of the Gospels) about the Gospels as sources about the historical figure of Jesus. 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