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About a year ago, I floated an idea in a blog post<\/a>,\u00a0something that had struck me in teaching my class on the historical Jesus. Anthony Le Donne noticed it and encouraged me to explore the topic further and\u00a0consider developing it into an article. I did so, and submitted it to the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus<\/a><\/em>. It has now appeared in print, and you can read it online if you have a subscription. Otherwise, you can read it\u00a0on my university repository<\/a> and Academia.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"