The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the findings to provide portraits of the historical
Albert Schweitzer's book The Quest of the Historical Jesus introduced the term
The criterion of embarrassment developed during the second quest was applied to the Baptism of Jesus, depicted here in a c. 1567 painting by Juan Fernández Navarrete.
"Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea", a painting by James Tissot, c. 1890
The ancient synagogue at Capernaum
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The historicity of Jesus is the debate "on the fringes of scholarship" and in popular culture regarding whether Jesus historically existed or was a purely mythological figure. Mainstream New Testament
Quest for the historical Jesus
…challenge to the first quest was The Christ Myth, first published in 1909 by Arthur Drews on the Christ myth theory and the denial of the existence of a historical Jesus. Drews, by amplifying and publicizing the thesis initially advanced by Bruno Bauer, rose to international prominence from the resulting international…
Jesus as the Good Shepherd; middle of 3rd-century.
The crucifixion of Jesus as depicted by Mannerist painter Bronzino (c. 1545)
An 11th-century Byzantine manuscript containing the opening of the Gospel of Luke