Vida de Jesús (1863) abre la serie Histoire des origines du christianisme y propone un retrato del Jesús histórico arraigado en la geografía de Galilea y en la crítica filológica de los evangelios. Renan depura los relatos de milagros, lee los sinópticos como fuentes principales y trata el cuarto evangelio con cautela, para delinear a un predicador carismático y moral. Su prosa, a la vez lírica y positivista, conjuga descripciones pastorales con una metodología historicista que bebe de la ...

During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry Beesly writes, "a brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had overcome her neighbors and made herself supreme in Italy. In 146 B.C. she had given the death-blow to her greatest rival, Carthage, and had annexed Greece." But Rome was on the brink of a one hundred year-long revolution. In this slim volume Be...