has produced, save only the works of Strauss, Baur, and Zeller.

[19] "The Jesus of History" is now known to have been written by
Sir Richard Hanson, Chief Justice of South Australia.


The fitness of our author for the task which he has undertaken is
shown at the outset by his choice of materials. In basing his
conclusions almost exclusively upon the statements contained in
the first gospel, he is upheld by every sound principle of
criticism. The times and places at which our three synoptic
gospels were written have been, through the labours of the
Tubingen critics, determined almost to a certainty. Of the three,
"Mark" is unquestionably the latest; with the exception of about
twenty verses, it is entirely made up from "Matthew" and "Luke,"
the diverse Petrine and Pauline tendencies of which it strives to
neutralize in conformity to the conciliatory disposition of the
Church at Rome, at the epoch at which this gospel was written,
about A. D. 130. The third gospel was also written at Rome, some
fifteen years earlier. In the preface, its author describes it as
a compilation from previously existing written materials. Among
these materials was certainly the first gospel, several passages
of which are adopted word for word by the author of "Luke." Yet
the narrative varies materially from that of the first gospel in
many essential points. The arrangement of events is less natural,
and, as in the "Acts of the Apostles," by the same author, there
is apparent throughout the design of suppressing the old discord
between Paul and the Judaizing disciples, and of representing
Christianity as essentially Pauline from the outset. How far Paul
was correct in his interpretation of the teachings of Jesus, it