• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      He changed his name himself because he got brain damage from falling off a horse and decided to become a Christian

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        He also seemed to have hallucinations / schizophrenia, also got in a fight with Jesus’s brother in a temple in Jerusalem like 12 years after Jesus’s death. At least this is some information we can scrape together.

        Also shout out to a book called Zealot by Reza Aslan all about cobbling together an historic representation of the Jesus the man, from various pieces of evidence.