The minimal facts most historians — across belief systems — accept about Jesus of Nazareth, and where history ends and theology begins.
Independent of faith, a broad scholarly majority accepts a small set of points about Jesus: he was a first-century Galilean Jew, was baptized, gathered followers, was known as a teacher and healer, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate (corroborated by the hostile Roman historian Tacitus and, with caveats, by Josephus). What history *cannot* settle by its methods is theological: whether he rose, and whether he is divine. Those are claims of a different kind — addressed by theology and personal conviction, not by the tools of historical reconstruction. Keeping the two categories distinct is the heart of honest inquiry here.
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