“Links in the gospels, e. g., with Herod the Great, Joseph Caiaphas, and Pontius Pilate, are so problematical on internal grounds that most critical scholars, never meaning to espouse Mythicism, reject these features of the story as legendary.”

—  Robert M. Price

[Price, Robert M., w:Robert M. Price, The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems, https://books.google.com/books?id=qhyzNAEACAAJ, 2011, American Atheist Press, 978-1-57884-017-5, 425, Conclusion: Do You “No” Jesus?]

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