The Jesus FAQ

I’ve added anoth­er essay to my grow­ing pile. This one is called The Jesus FAQ (pdf) It’s a com­pan­ion piece to Why Jesus? — it explains what we can know about Jesus even if we don’t think that the Bible is inspired. The ques­tions I have in the cur­rent draft are:

1. Is there any record of Jesus out­side the Bible?
2. What did Jesus look like?
3. Where did Jesus live?
4. What did Jesus do for a liv­ing?
5. Did Jesus have a fam­i­ly?
6. What did Jesus teach?
7. Why was Jesus killed?
8. How was Jesus killed?
9. How did Jesus come to be wor­shiped?

I expect to revise this essay sev­er­al times as I get ques­tions and feed­back. There are near­ly 100 foot­notes, and I’m pret­ty sure that I’ve used incon­sis­tent for­mat­ting in my ref­er­ences. There are prob­a­bly fac­tu­al errors or ambi­gu­i­ties as well (hope­ful­ly small ones). Please let me know if you find one!