Conclusion
Conclusion
My primary goal in this book is not so much to add another reconstruction of the “historical Jesus” (although I will expend much of the second half of the book suggesting where I believe the evidence of the best sources points in that regard). My primary goal is rather to investigate how much we can know from the best sources available, and to offer examples of how these sources provide us more adequate information about Jesus than many scholars think we have. If we focus on the earliest sources and approach them with the increased confidence that I believe they warrant, we will arrive at a fuller, more multifaceted picture of Jesus than some single-emphasis portraits of earlier scholarship have permitted.