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Jesus Christ: Historical Materialism, Class Conflict, and the Jesus Movement

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The Role of Ideology in the Creation of the Gospel of Mark

Chronologically speaking, the gospel of Mark seems closest to the actual events in question. And then it seems that a period of time passes and then there's the gospel of John which is much more perhaps religious,. Less historical base, there's more ideology perhaps coming into it. So that makes John perhaps if we're going to rank them slightly less reliable than the other ones. But I still think that Luke retains more material of use for understanding the historical Jesus.

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