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I've suddenly realized that I've missed an important part of the point Marxsen makes by his Bismarck illustration (NTBK: 77, 81). Although many Bismarck-anecdotes, he says, are not historically authentic, some of them, at least, are still historically "true," because they portray the same human being who emerges from authentic historical reports about Bismarck. So far, so good. Even reports of Jesus' sayings or deeds that are hardly authentic may nonetheless be "true" insofar as they likewise portray the same human being who appears from other reports that are authentic, or, at any rate, are assumed to be so, by those to whom we owe them.

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