Original sentence: There is a paucity of accepted contemporaneous sources and of direct empirical evidence.Therefore, it is difficult for representatives of the different religious and secular traditions of knowledge and faith to reach agreement on a "biography" of Jesus.This article therefore offers the differing views and beliefs
Edited sentence: Owing to the paucity of reliable historical sources and the aforementioned epistemelogical differences it is difficult for representatives of the different religious and secular traditions of knowledge and faith to reach agreement on a "biography" of Jesus and so this article offers the differing views and beliefs