![]() ![]() They weren’t interested in historical facts. ![]() They were trying to craft a consistent message, dogma, or doctrine. In fact the idea of a historian who checks and triple checks every fact was unknown to these writers. The texts used by scholars to research the historical Jesus were not written by historians.For they will come to represent the restoration of the twelve tribes of Israel, long since destroyed and scattered. Yet the Twelve had another more symbolic function, one that would manifest itself later in Jesus’s ministry. They would not be the leaders of Jesus’s movement, but rather its chief missionaries. But the inner circle, The Twelve, were the principal bearers of Jesus’s message-the apostoloi, or “ambassadors”-apostles sent off to neighboring towns and villages to preach independently and without supervision. Some were women and named in the Gospels. During Jesus’ ministry (28-30 CE), there were 72 disciples.The bulk of Aslan's ideas came from a 1967 book called “Jesus and the Zealots” written by S.G.F. ![]()
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