DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
The people who wrote them. Schweitzer found that most of these lives of Jesus told more about their authors than about Jesus.
Why it’s interesting
His own Jesus was a prophet who expected the end of the world. A majority of scholars today still read Jesus along that line, as a prophet of God's coming kingdom.
Scholarly consensus
Learn the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.