What New Testament accounts of the life of Jesus appear to be historically incorrect?
As for Paul’s account, he did not know Jesus, and apart from some obvious later interpolations by another hand, regards him as a spiritual being, about whom he learnt from God (as he says in 2 Corinthians 12) in an out-of-world experience when he was lifted up to the third level of Heaven. About half of the letters ascribed to him are widely recognised as written by his successors.
Related Questions
- In all Paul’s writings (there are 13 of his letters in the New Testament, though some may not have been by him) there is virtually no information about Jesus’s life, apart from his death and resurrection. Wasn’t Paul interested in these stories?
- What historical accounts exist of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, outside of Christian writings?
- What New Testament accounts of the life of Jesus appear to be historically incorrect?
