Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

The statement quantifies the remarkable modern proliferation of “Lives of Jesus” literature—biographies and reconstructions of Jesus’ life produced for scholarly, devotional, and popular audiences. By pointing to roughly 350 English-language titles in the first half of the twentieth century, it underscores how intensely Jesus became a subject of historical inquiry and cultural imagination in that period, shaped by higher criticism, archaeology, comparative religion, and shifting theological currents. The statistic functions rhetorically: it suggests both the enduring fascination with Jesus and the diversity (and contestability) of portraits produced, implying that any single “life” is one among many competing interpretations rather than a final account.