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Who was Jesus of Nazareth? For millennia, people and groups of varying convictions have pondered this question and done their best to seek out an answer.

Now, with the help of the present course—created by Professor Bart D. Ehrman as a companion to his 24-lectures series on The New Testament—you can learn how modern historical scholarship aids the search.

The significance of the subject is apparent: From the late Roman Empire all the way to our own time, no continuously existing institution or belief system has wielded as much influence as Christianity.

And behind it all stands Jesus. Worshiped around the globe by more than a billion people today, he is undoubtedly the single most important figure in the story of Western civilization, and one of the most significant in world history altogether.

Everyone who has even the faintest knowledge of Jesus has an opinion about him, says Professor Ehrman, and these opinions vary widely—not only among laypeople, but even among professional scholars who have devoted their lives to the task of reconstructing what the historical Jesus was probably like, and what he most likely said and did.

What Can Modern Scholarship Tell You

About the "Jesus of History"?

Professor Ehrman explains why it has proved so difficult to know about this "Jesus of history," and to see what kinds of conclusions modern scholars have drawn about him.

Professor Ehrman approaches this subject from a strictly historical perspective, with no intention of affirming or denying any particular theological beliefs about the identity or significance of Jesus.

You open the course with a discussion of the four New Testament Gospels, which everyone agrees are our principal sources of knowledge about Jesus. These books are not written as dispassionate histories for impartial observers. Their authors do not claim to have been eyewitnesses of the events they narrate, but write several decades later, telling stories that they have heard—stories that have been in circulation for decades among the followers of Jesus.

The first step, then, will be to determine what kinds of books the Gospels are and to ascertain how reliable their information about Jesus is. The question will be: Apart from their value as religious documents of faith, what do the Gospels tell historians?

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