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The Historical Jesus
The Great Courses
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A Great Courses lecture series by historian Bart Ehrman that examines what can be reliably established about the historical Jesus from limited, sometimes contradictory or forged, ancient sources. It is framed as a history course on historical method.
A commenter says they found the course better than Ehrman's books and that it changes how you approach historical evidence in general.
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The Historical Jesus by Bart Ehrman, on Great Courses. Bart Ehrman has written a number of books on the historical Jesus, and the birth of Christianity, but I found the course to be better than the books.
You might not like it if you are a believer in Jesus, although Bart Ehrman tries not to challenge any belief. The flip side is that you might not like it if you are a non-believer, since he spends a certain amount of time trying to massage the message so that not to offend believers. Still, I think you'd enjoy the course more as a non-believer.
It's a history course. It shows how historians can extract valuable information given little (and often time contradictory, and sometimes forged) historical data. You can take these lessons then and try to apply them everywhere. It's going to change the way you perceive history.