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Since the nineteenth century, in many rapidly secularizing Western societies the study of the historical Jesus and early Christianity was at the very core of ongoing attempts to embrace modernity, and to define and develop a new sense of cultural belonging. In many political, religious and academic settings, historical Jesus scholarship was nothing short of a minefield, which brought about polemical strife. Jews, Catholics, Protestants, freethinkers, socialists, nationalists, liberals, in various combinations and degrees, were eager to construct their very own Jesus for both scientific and ideological purposes. The war-zone of scholarship on Jesus and early Christianity offers a fascinating insight into European and American intellectual history.
