Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^161Eerdmans, 2011); Alexander J. M. Wedderburn, Jesus and the
Historians (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), pp. 189–224.
- Dale C. Allison, ‘It Don’t Come Easy: a History of Disillusionment’,
in Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity, ed. by Chris Keith
and Anthony Le Donne (London: T&T Clark, 2012), pp. 186–199. - Although I place greater weight on the role of invention within
the tradition associated with Jesus. See Justin J. Meggitt, ‘Popular
Mythology in the Early Empire and the Multiplicity of Jesus Traditions’,
in Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth, ed. by
R. Joseph Hoffmann (Amherst: Prometheus, 2010), pp. 53–80. - See, for example, Louis-André Dorion, ‘The Rise and Fall of the
Socratic Problem’, in The Cambridge Companion to Socrates, ed.
by Donald R. Morrison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2011), pp. 1–23. - See, for example, Maria Dzielska, Apollonius of Tyana in Legend
and History (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1986). - As Fonrobert and Jaffee note about Rabbi Akiva, one of the key
founders of Rabbinic Judaism, the nature of the sources make it im-
possible to know, “with any degree of historical certainty”, whether
he really said what is attributed to him (Charlotte Fonrobert and
Martin S. Jaffee, ‘Introduction: The Talmud, Rabbinic Literature, and
Jewish Culture’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and
Rabbinic Literature [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007],
pp. 1–14 [p. 2]). - Meggitt, ‘Popular Mythology’.
- A similar idea can be found in C. H. Dodd, History and the
Gospel (London: Nisbet, 1938) although it was passed over by sub-
sequent work in the field. - Justin J. Meggitt, ‘Psychology and the Historical Jesus’, in Jesus
and Psychology, ed. by Fraser Watts (London: Darton,Longman &
Todd, 2007), pp. 16–26 (p. 24). Also quoted in Allison, Constructing
Jesus, p. 433. - Dale C. Allison, ‘Behind the Temptations of Jesus : Q 4:1–13 and
Mark 1:12–13’, in Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, ed. by Bruce
Chilton and Craig A. Evans (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 195–213.