So without a single New Testament document or ancient text describing Jesus, you could still reconstruct every detail of Jesus’s life, ministry, death, resurrection—and his impact on the lives of believers—from the hundreds of screenplays that have been written and movies that have been made in just the past one hundred years. That’s the kind of impact Jesus had on our collective literary imagination. But this person of interest didn’t only influence books and screenplays that describe the life and ministry of Jesus.
