Now, Berlioz wanted to prove to the poet that the main thing was not how Jesus was, good or bad, but that this same Jesus, as a person, simply never existed in the world, and all the stories about him were mere fiction, the most ordinary mythology.
Why make a POEM about this? It’s an erudite and abstruse topic, fraught with argument among scholars. Question
E.g., Did Jesus Exist, by Bart Ehrman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman_book)
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