Originally Posted by xmas13

Historians and scholars study the Bible and Bible-related books (Talmud...etc).

It's very hard to study something that never existed (the life of Jesus Christ), you know.

Look at this Wikipedia entry manipulated by the Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
Earliest known sources

Christian writings, Gospels, Pauline Epistles...etc.

Greco-Roman sources

Romans

Jewish records

Talmud

VERY CREDIBLE SOURCES lol



I would edit and say "most CHRISTIAN/MUSLIM/JEWISH scholars", religious people study religion, they will never claim that they believe in a myth

In Israel, the secular population is a majority but a minority of Yeshiva goers and fanatics decide what can be said or not about Judaism.