IDENTITY
Vie de Jésus
Religion / Bible
Work Summary
A historical and critical study of the life of Jesus that treats him primarily as a human religious figure within the historical world of first-century Palestine. Renan combines biblical sources, historical reconstruction and literary narrative while approaching the Gospel accounts outside traditional doctrines of supernatural revelation.
Evidence Summary
His memory of Renan remained active years later.
Documents an important religious/intellectual reading source without assigning later artistic causation.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Ernest Renan
Work
Vie de Jésus
Years / Period
early 1875
Van Gogh Relation
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Evidence Trail
early 1875 — Letters 30/33; confirmed in note to Letter 493
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The scholarly edition states that Van Gogh had read Vie de Jésus at the beginning of 1875.
Response: His memory of Renan remained active years later.
Connection: Documents an important religious/intellectual reading source without assigning later artistic causation.
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