Original sentence: According to Wells, both figures owe much of their substance to ideas from the Jewish wisdom literature.In 2000 Van Voorst gave an overview of proponents of the "Nonexistence Hypothesis" and their arguments, and eight arguments against this hypothesis as put forward by Wells and his predecessors.In The Jesus Myth (1999) and later works, Wells argues that two Jesus narratives fused into one: Paul's mythical Jesus and a minimally historical Jesus from a Galilean preaching tradition, whose teachings were preserved in the Q document, a hypothetical common source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.{{refn|group=note|Van Voorst: According to Maurice Casey, Wells' work repeated the main points of the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, which are deemed outdated by mainstream scholarship
Edited sentence: 30 under Pilate and the resurrection should be regarded as legendary.According to Maurice Casey, Wells' work repeated the main points of the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, which are deemed outdated by mainstream scholarship.Atheist philosopher and scholar Michael Martin supported his thesis, claiming: According to Graham Stanton, writing in 2002, Wells advanced the most sophisticated version of the Christ myth theory.However, he continued to insist that Biblical Jesus did not exist and argued that stories such as the virgin birth, the crucifixion around A.In The Jesus Myth (1999), Wells argues that two Jesus narratives fused into one: Paul's mythical Jesus and a minimally historical Jesus whose teachings were preserved in the Q document, a hypothetical common source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.Later, Wells concluded that a historical Jesus figure did exist and was a Galilean preacher, whose teachings were preserved in the Q document, a hypothetical common source for the gospels of Matthew and Luke.Wells was featured in the controversial UK television programme series, Jesus: The Evidence (Channel 4: 1984), which caused a furore, being Channel 4's first major religious programme commission