David Friedrich Strauss [...] , broke new ground in biblical interpretation by explaining the New Testament accounts of Christ mythologically. [...] Influenced during [...] Such an analysis inspired his first major work, Das Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet, [...] , in which he denied the historical value of the Gospels and rejected their supernatural claims, describing them as “historical myth,” or the unintentionally created, legendary embodiment by 2nd-century writers of the primitive Christian community’s popular hopes.(English)
