title: Jesus and history
text: # Jesus and history
  
  Jesus and history may refer to:
  
  * Jesus
  * Historicity of Jesus, the existence of Jesus as a historical figure
  * Historical Jesus, the reconstruction of portraits of Jesus' life and teachings using historical methods
  * Chronology of Jesus, the chronology of the major events of Jesus' life
  * Quest for the historical Jesus, the methods and techniques used by academics to study the life of Jesus
  * Historical background of the New Testament, the cultural influences that form the backdrop of Jesus' life in 1st century Judea
  * Historical reliability of the Gospels, the historical validity or invalidity of the canonical gospels
  * Genealogy of Jesus, study of Jesus' lineage
  * Christ myth theory, the theory that Jesus was a fictional or mythological character invented by early Christians
  
  ## Related topics
  
  * Historicity of the Bible
  * Jesus Christ in comparative mythology, compares the narrative of the life of Jesus from the Christian gospels with other religions
  * Josephus on Jesus, the references by 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus to Jesus in his Antiquities of the Jews
  * Tacitus on Christ, the reference by Tacitus in Book 15 of his Annals to Christians and the execution of their leader by Pontius Pilate
  * Criticism of Jesus, criticisms of Jesus that have been raised by various scholars and writers
  