Across the span of history, few quests have been as fruitless as the one for the so-called “historical Jesus”. Since the eighteenth century, academics have ambitiously set out to separate the New Testament myths from the first-century Jewish man. This venture has come in three distinct waves, each utilizing its own criteria and giving rise to some of the great heroes of Biblical criticism—names such as Strauss, Schweitzer, Bultmann, and Sanders. Yet, despite these great minds bringing the human Jesus into closer focus, time and again his figure seems to pass through our midst.