ABSTRACT
Articles and books about Jesus always seem to find an audience. This is not just a modern phenomenon, however. Once Christianity became dominant in the Roman empire, a considerable amount of interest was generated by the few references to Jesus in non-Christian literature. There were only a handful of these, and the many discoveries of new original sources in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did not add to the store of Jesus testimonies, unfortunately. The result is that there is a long list of secondary studies on these passages, going back several centuries.
