The passage tombs, archaeology and landscape of Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Essential Revision Notes
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Jesus’ ministry in rural Palestine lasted from only one to three years, reached a limited number of people, and ended in apparent failure, with the abandonment of his followers and his execution by Roman authorities. Nevertheless, responsible historical inquiry yields important statements concerning Jesus as a person of the 1st-century Mediterranean world.
Inquiry of this nature involves using all available sources (insider and outsider); testing the sources for bias; determining lines of convergence among sources; and resisting the urge to speculate beyond what the evidence allows.
Although historians cannot establish a full story concerning Jesus that’s independent of the Gospels, they can state (with greater and lesser degrees of probability) important facts about him.
Jesus was likely a 1st-century Palestinian Jew who was executed by the Romans around the year 30 C.E. and in whose name, shortly thereafter, a movement arose and spread across the Mediterranean, gener...