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Albert Schweitzer, one of the giants of the 20th century.

He had a PhD in biblical studies.

He also had a PhD in musicology and was an expert organist. And he also had a medical

degree. And he spent a couple of decades out in the medical missions in Africa. He was a real

underachiever. And he was highly influential in the development of historical Jesus' research.

But even giants can make mistakes.

And one of the mistakes that he made was suggesting that, well, so his famous book is called

The Quest of the Historical Jesus, but it originally appeared under the German title,

von Rymars Tsumvreda, that is from Hermann Samuel Rymaris to William Breda. And so what Schweitzer did with that title is he suggested that interest in Jesus

as a figure in history began in the 18th century with this German figure Hermann Samuel

Ramaris who after his death there were there was the publication of a number of fragments that he

had written about historical Jesus right and so Schweitzer suggested that that's when interest in

Jesus as a historical figure began.

That's not really accurate.

There's a contemporary German Catholic scholar

by the name of Marius Riser, who has argued persuasively

that actually interest in Jesus as a figure in history

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