
There are many contradictions in the bible because it's a volume composed of different books written by different people in different times for different purposes. The idea that they are all telling the same story is a fundamentalist dogma. You can actually learn about the context of these books with an academic study bible like new oxford one. And you can learn about the historical jesus from people like bart ehrman, john dominic crossan, dale martin, dale allison, robert miller, the westar sch