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Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Sources, Biblical

Here are entered works purporting to give a life of Jesus Christ in the words of the four Gospels, harmonized into a continuous narrative.

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• Jesus Christ -- Biography
• Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Sources

• The Gospels Combined: Parallel Passages Blended, and Separate Accounts Connected; Presenting in One Continuous Narrative, the Life of Jesus Christ As Told by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; His Words in Special Type (Boston: W. A. Wilde and Co., 1895), ed. by Charles Henry Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Twentieth Century Story of the Christ: An Interweaving of the Four Gospels (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co., c1917), ed. by Henry T. Sell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Life, Sayings and Words of Jesus, Selected and Arranged by Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy and Writer of the Declaration of Independence, Illustrated With Scenes From the Life of Christ and Containing a Collection of Best Beloved Hymns and Anthems (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., c1940), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by Douglas E. Lurton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels, by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by Eyler Robert Coates (HTML at angelfire.com)
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels, by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at nothingistic.org)
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels (St. Louis, Chicago, and New York: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., c1902), by Thomas Jefferson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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• Who Was This Nazarene? A Challenging and Definite Biography of the Master (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940), by Albert Field Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crises of the Christ (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1903), by G. Campbell Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Desire of Ages, by Ellen G. White (HTML at whiteestate.org)
• His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels (Chicago and New York: Hope Pub. Co., c1905), ed. by William E. Barton, Theodore Gerald Soares, and Sydney Strong (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From His Incarnation Until His Ascension, Denoting and Incorporating the Words of the Sacred Text From the Vulgate; Also, The History of The Acts of the Apostles, Connected, Explained, and Blended With Reflections (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1867), by François de Ligny, trans. by Mrs. J. Sadlier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jesus of Nazareth: A Biography, by George A. Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Joseph Klausner, trans. by Herbert Danby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern (6th edition; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1922), by James E. Talmage (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Jesus, the Last Great Initiate (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, ca. 1908), by Edouard Schuré, trans. by Fred Rothwell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by Alfred Edersheim (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Life of Christ, by F. W. Farrar (HTML at christianwritings.net)
• The Life of Christ (New York: A. L. Burt, n.d.), by F. W. Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Christ (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1874), by F. W. Farrar
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of Christ (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1863), by William Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Jesus (based on the 1927 Modern library edition, with its new introduction omitted), by Ernest Renan (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Jesus Christ, by James Stalker (HTML at ccohmb.org)
• The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (2 volumes; New York: C. Blanchard, 1860), by David Friedrich Strauss, trans. by George Eliot
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (London: G. Allen and Co., 1913), by David Friedrich Strauss, trans. by George Eliot (page images at Michigan)
• The Life of Our Lord Upon the Earth Considered in its Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Relations (New York: C. Scribner, 1863), by Samuel J. Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man of Galilee: A Biographical Study of the Life of Jesus Christ (edition de luxe, c1899), by Frank W. Gunsaulus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Man of Galilee: A Short Sketch of Christ's Three Years of Ministry (Grand Rapids, MI: Shaw Publishing Company, c1912), by Elton Raymond Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Most Wonderful Story in the World: A Life of Christ for Little Children (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1922), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mystery of the Kingdom of God: The Secret of Jesus' Messiahship and Passion (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by Walter Lowrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Short Account of the First Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles: Being a Continuation of "Conversations on the Life of Jesus Christ", by a Mother (London: B. Fellowes and J. Harris, 1830), by Elizabeth Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Jésus (ninth edition, in French; Paris: M. Levy Freres, 1863), by Ernest Renan (Gutenberg text)
• An Abridgment of The New Testament: or, The Life, Miracles, and Death of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Glasgow, Scotland: J. Lumsden and Son, 1815) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (c1915), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (revised edition; New York et al: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1916), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jesus an Essene (only book in a projected "Christ, Christians, and Christianity" series; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1895), by Edward Planta Nesbit (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Man of Galilee (New York: Hunt and Eaton; Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, c1889), by Atticus G. Haygood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Understanding the Times of Christ, by William W. Menzies (HTML at archive.org)

• The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (London: L. N. Fowler and Co.; Los Angeles: E. S. Dowling, 1911), by Levi, contrib. by Eva S. Dowling (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (8th edition; London: L. N. Fowler and Co., c1920), by Levi, contrib. by Eva S. Dowling (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der Neutestamentlichen Apokryphen (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1909), by Walter Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (1890), by Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Strange New Gospels, by Edgar J. Goodspeed (HTML at tertullian.org)

• The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by W. Montgomery (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
• The Fair Haven: A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in Our Lord's Ministry Upon Earth, Both as Against Rationalistic Impugners and Certain Orthodox Defenders (London: A. C. Fifield, 1913), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by R. A. Streatfeild (Gutenberg text)

• The Life of Our Lord (published posthumously, c1934), by Charles Dickens (PDF in Japan; NO US ACCESS)
• The Child's Life of Christ: or, The Wonderful Life (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. C. Winston and Co., c1891), by Hesba Stretton, illust. by Heinrich Hofmann and Bernhard Plockhorst (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child's Life of Jesus (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1906), by C. M. Steedman, illust. by Paul Woodroffe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• When the King Came: Stories from the Four Gospels, by George Hodges (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Come Ye Apart: Daily Bible Readings in the Life of Christ, by J. R. Miller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der Neutestamentlichen Apokryphen (in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1909), by Walter Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Star of Bethlehem: The Star That Astonished the World, by Ernest L. Martin (HTML with commentary at askelm.com)
• Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?, by William Mitchell Ramsay (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Das Letzte Passamahl Christ und der Tag Seines Todes, Nach den in Übereinstimmung Gebrachten Berichten der Synoptiker und des Evangelium Johannis (in German; Leipzig: H. Haessel, 1908), by D. A. Khvol'son
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Did Jesus Live 100 B. C.? An Enquiry into the Talmud Jesus Stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and Some Curious Statements of Epiphanius, Being a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1903), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)

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