George Albert Wells

George Albert Wells ( May 22nd 1926) is a British linguist and critic Christianity. He has published several books on Jesus of Nazareth, who initially denied its existence, accept since 1998 but a historical person behind the sources.

Life

Wells studied at the Universities of London and Bern. He is Emeritus Professor of German from Birkbeck College in London. He was chairman of the Rationalist Press Association. Wells has doubts sometimes with R. Joseph Hoffmann, based on the known since about 1750 mythological motifs of the early Christian sources that Jesus existed real.

He is thus in an Anglo-Saxon tradition of skeptical and critical source criticism Christianity. Since 1998 he holds the existence of Jesus as likely to not invent the early Christians, but would stylized to a Jesus myth.

Publications (selection)

  • Can We Trust the New Testament? Thoughts on the Reliability of Early Christian Testimony. Neuausg. Open Court Publ, Chicago, Ill. 2004, ISBN 0-8126-9567-4.
  • Did Jesus Exist? Elek & Pemberton, London, 1975, ISBN 0-236-31001-1.
  • The Historical Evidence for Jesus. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, N. Y. 1982, ISBN 0-87975-180-0.
  • The Jesus Myth. Open Court Publ, Chicago, Ill., 1991, ISBN 0-8126-93-92-2.
  • Religious postures. Essays on modern Christian apologists and religious problems. Open Court Publ, La Salle, Ill., 1988, ISBN 0-8126-9070-2.
  • What's in a name. Reflection on language, magic and religion. Open Court Publ, Chicago, Ill. 1993, ISBN 0-8126-9238-1.
  • Who Was Jesus? A critique of the New Testament record. Neuaufl. Open Court Publ, La Salle, Ill., 1991, ISBN 0-8126-9096-6.
  • Linguist
  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1926
  • Man
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