document.write('&quot;The question of the mythological and legendary character of the Gospels  did not first arise in modern times.  The historical reliability of the  accounts of Jesus\' life was already an issue for Christian thinkers in  the second century.&quot;  Robert L. Wilken, <I><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0300036272/InternetInfidels/" target="new">The Christians As the Romans Saw Them</a></I>  (New Haven: Yale, 1984), p. 112.\n');