Historian Wellhausen on Jesus
“Jesus was not a Christian: he was a Jew. He did not preach a new faith, but taught men to do the will of God; and, in his opinion, as also in that of the Jews, the will of God was to be found in the Law of Moses and in the other books of Scripture.”1
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Julius Wellhausen (May 17, 1844 – January 7, 1918) was a German
biblical scholar and orientalist, noted particularly for his contribution
to scholarly understanding of the origin of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible).
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See p. 368 of Klausner’s Jesus
1. Einleitung in die drei ersten Evangelian, Berlin, 1905, p. 113
source: Joseph Klausner, Jesus of Nazareth, New York: Bloch Publishing Company,
© 1989, p. 363
