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Some Biblical minimalists, most notably [[Earl Doherty]], have suggested that [[Jesus]] never existed, that the character is a gestalt of numerous individuals who lived and myths that were common currency during the late Hellenistic age.
Occasionally, Biblical minimalists leave themselves open to the charge of ignoring evidence, such as the following by the Roman historian Tacitus, who was clearly anti-Christian. In his _Annals_, 15.44, in the course of criticizing Nero, Tacitus writes:
:“Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius: but the pernicious superstition, repressed for a time broke out again, not only through Judea, where the mischief originated, but through the city of Rome also, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular.”
===Biblical maximalism===
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