I was looking for a book on the historical Jesus that is serious, rigorous, taking into account the latest findings on the subject, and especially without bias - well I found it by buying this book. Reads very well, almost like a novel. It raises the real issues, tackles almost all important topics. It includes annexes that are also worth visiting. Little originality: the historian takes into account the shroud of Turin to expand the description of the Passion and gives us an enlightening summary of the latest scientific findings! Obviously like any historian who wrote a biography with so little material, it sometimes locks himself in insignificant details to the reader ... But never anything too annoying! That said, this biography nevertheless remains consensual, and is based solely on the 4 canonical Gospels ... The Apocrypha are not took into account just flown in Annex but soon relegated to the status of legends. There are some in this historian academicism. Surprisingly for me, the historian "flirt" sometimes lexégèse and ventures to comment the words of Christ; sometimes to restore historicity, sometimes to give an opinion on the true meaning. But why not! You decide! I enjoyed this book.
