8 Other parallels, discussed below, include the relation between the version we are reading and its "original" sources. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, scholars have generally acknowledged that none of the gospel accounts is an eyewitness record of the life of Jesus.9 The contrast with Joan of Arcs firsthand account implies that any general questions that might be raised about de Conte's eyewitness narrative would be equally applicable to the second-hand gospel accounts.\n (This comment is a full-fledged expression of his lifelong, reflex Vorhabe, his hermeneutic circle; the question of whether he recognizes it as such is unanswerable.) On the piece of paper is written this chorus from the children's song about the tree: ... when in exile wand 'ring, we Shall fainting yearn for glimpse of thee, Oh, rise upon our sight! (957) De Conte immediately concludes, without evidence, that Joan's intention was to banish vain hopes from the minds of her family and friends (957).