Hello Craig,

Thank you for taking your time to answer that question. I absolutley agree that the life of Yeshua is a model...not an institution. I would really like to understand the life of Yeshua historically, as you put it...before 30ce. How is that possible? Can you explain the history of the Apostolic text or give me some resources that will help in my search? A quote from your response: "The words of Yeshua we have in the New Testament were altered through the first three centuries. We can see a clear change between the first group of documents (Paul's epistle to the Thessalonians [around 50 CE], the earliest text, Mark [around 70 CE], the Q, or Quelle text, a lost document whose sayings appear in Luke and Matthew [likely written sometime around 50 to 70 CE]), and the later gospels, written from around 90 CE to 110 CE. The later writers added to Yeshua's story, purely and simply." Can you give me the breakdown of the first group of documents and the later gospels that you beleive to be added to? And maybe the Quelle that you mentioned. I do believe that the spoken language of his time would have been Hebrew. There is much evidence to support this, and even the documents in circulation at his time would have been in Hebrew...when did that all change? Was it upon the destruction of the temple? I hope I am not asking to much. Thank you again!
van8lan