Modern Gospel Students Give Us New Portraits of Jesus Every SpringJust in Time for Easter Is it true that Jesus had a child by Mary Magdalene? Was Jesus a Cynic? Or a Mystic? Maybe even a Gnostic? Is it true that he faked his own death and fled from the Holy Land to Egypt? And then wrote letters to the Jewish court, where he stated that he was mistaken. That he never called himself the Son of God? Is it true. that twenty-five years after his crucifixion, he celebrated with his friends the anniversary of the Last Supper? Is it true that the tomb of Jesus was found? And the grave of his father? That there are other sources that reveal to us about the life and teachings of Jesus that. What was not included in the New Testament gospels? What are the Dead Sea Scrolls among such sources? What has the church been hiding the truth for many centuries? Or maybe there was no Jesus?All these and many other statements can be found in the books about Jesus that are read today. The more unusual the portrait, the further away it is from traditional ideas about Jesus, the more attention is paid to it by popular media. Why are some researchers so inclined to fabricate “new Jesus”? Craig Evans shows us why most New Testament scholars do not and should not take such claims seriously. What methods, what assumptions encourage them to distort the truth? Is it possible to take a more sober approach to the search for the real Jesus?