May 11, 2001
Battle Lines in the Jesus Wars
A historian claims radical scholars have distorted early Christianity
Jesus may have been the Prince of Peace to his followers, but to scholars of early Christianity he's the subject of one of the fiercest debates in academe. Scholars in the field concede that they've been enmeshed for some years in a battle known as "the Jesus wars."
On one side are advocates of the greatest story ever told, scholars who preach the authority of the four canonical Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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