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1473:. As Kennedy recalled later, "We featured a wide variety of scholarly viewpoints... We set out to show the ample historical evidence that the Gospels are reliable, that the New Testament is the best-attested book in antiquity in quantity and quality of manuscripts, that Jesus is who He said He is, and that He rose from the dead." The film aired on Christmas Day 2000 on the PAX-TV network and a number of CBS affiliates. An expanded version of the film, titled "Who Is This Jesus: Is He Risen?", aired at Easter 2001. The film aired again on "The Coral Ridge Hour" on Palm Sunday, 2005. 1331:
would leave us with a monstrosity: a Jesus who never said, thought, or did anything that other Jews said, thought, or did, and a Jesus who had no connection or relationship to what his followers said, thought, or did in reference to him after he died." J. Ed Komoszewski and co-authors state that the Jesus Seminar's "Criteria for In/Authenticity" creates "an eccentric Jesus who learned nothing from his own culture and made no impact on his followers". The same criticism has been made by Craig Evans.
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their own size...the sayings that meet with the Seminar's approval were preserved by the Christian communities whose contribution is discounted. Jesus as a person does not exist outside of the gospels, and the only reason he exists there is because of their authors' faith in the Resurrection. Trying to find a construct, "the historical Jesus," is not like finding diamonds in a dunghill, but like finding New York City at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
575:. This translation uses current colloquialisms and contemporary phrasing in an effort to provide a contemporary sense of the gospel authors' styles, if not their literal words. The goal was to let the reader hear the message as a first-century listener might have. The translators avoided other translations' archaic, literal translation of the text, or a superficial update of it. For example, they translate "woe to you" as "damn you". The authors of 1314:'s eschatological view of Jesus. Casey argues that the Jesus Seminar's fundamental social goal was not to construct an accurate portrait of the historical Jesus, but rather to create "a figure whom are happy with". In particular, the fellows of the Seminar have removed "the apocalyptic and eschatological concerns which characterize American fundamentalism" and remade Jesus as "a cynic philosopher, which suits their intellectual ambiance". 1619: 1225:, who says: "I cannot understand how, if a majority ... thought a saying authentic or probably authentic, the 'weighted average' turned out to be 'probably inauthentic'. A voting system that produces a result like this ought to be scrapped." Casey sums up the voting process stating, "In practice, this meant an averaged majority vote by people who were not in any reasonable sense authorities at all." 1302:, arguing that their conclusions were at least in part predetermined by their theological positions. He also pointed out the limitations of their presumptions and methodology. Allison argued that despite the conclusions of the seminar, Jesus was a prophetic figure focused to a large extent on apocalyptic thinking. Several Bible scholars (for example 1145:, only 14 would be leading figures in the field of New Testament studies. More than half are basically unknowns, who have published only two or three articles. Eighteen of the fellows have published nothing at all in New Testament studies. Most have relatively undistinguished academic positions, for example, teaching at a community college. 1264:, voiced concerns with the seminar's work. He criticized the techniques of the Seminar, believing them to be far more limited for historical reconstruction than seminar members believe. Their conclusions were "already determined ahead of time," Johnson says, which "is not responsible, or even critical scholarship. It is a self-indulgent 1388:
Some scholars have advanced the theory that these so-called apocryphal gospels actually include texts and traditions that are older and more reliable than those in the canonical New Testament writings. ... These opinions are purely circular arguments, since the investigators have found material which
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It requires the assumption that someone, about a generation removed from the events in question, radically transformed the authentic information about Jesus that was circulating at that time, superimposed a body of material four times as large, fabricated almost entirely out of whole cloth, while the
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Reversing the burden of proof. In his day, Strauss had to offer evidence to question the historicity of any part of the gospels because his audience assumed that the gospels were historical. Today, the assumption is nearly the opposite, with the gospels understood to be so thoroughly embellished that
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The methods and conclusions of the Jesus Seminar have come under harsh criticism from numerous biblical scholars, historians and clergy for a variety of reasons. Such critics assert, for example, that the Fellows of the Seminar were not all trained scholars, that their voting technique did not allow
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Doesn't it seem like its open season on Christians—and even Christ—these days? The character of the only perfect human being to ever live is being dragged through the mud by those with the respectability of a degree behind their names ... While there are liberal Bible scholars who deny some or many
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likewise avers that the Seminar "operated to a remarkable degree on a priori principles, some of them reflecting antisupernatural bias. For instance, the bodily resurrection had no real chance of being accepted as having taken place. ... Again, almost as a principle, the eschatological character of
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Scholars involved in the third and next quests for the historical Jesus have constructed a variety of portraits and profiles for Jesus. However, there is little scholarly agreement on the portraits, or the methods used in constructing them. But according to Theissen and Merz, writing in 1996, while
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argues that the Jesus Seminar applies a form of hypercriticism to the canonical gospels that unreasonably assumes that "Jesus' contemporaries (that is, the first generation of his movement) were either incapable of remembering or uninterested in recalling accurately what Jesus said and did, and in
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match the beliefs of Judaism or those held by the early Christians. Critics such as Gregory Boyd have noted that the effect of this is that the Jesus of the Seminar shows no continuity with his Jewish context nor his disciples. Raymond Brown has stated that "a rigorous application of such criteria
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The effect of the American Jesus Seminar on conservative American Christians has been just as disastrous as the work of the Seminar itself. Some of them write books which appear to assume that, if they can demonstrate that the Jesus Seminar is wrong, they thereby demonstrate the absolute truth of
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This is the new fundamentalism. It believes in the literal sense of the Bible—it just reduces to what it can take as literal quotation from Jesus. Though some have called the Jesus Seminarists radical, they are actually very conservative. They tame the real, radical, Jesus, cutting him down to
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The Jesus Seminar produced a significant number of publications both in the form of journal articles and books published for the general public. Individual members of the seminar also produced, and continue to produce books which draw heavily upon the Seminar's work. The following is a selected
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The Seminar fellows decided the beatitude for those persecuted in Jesus' name might trace back to Jesus as a beatitude for those who suffer, but concluded that in its final form the saying represents concerns of the Christian community rather than Jesus' message. Thus it received a gray rating.
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the noneschatological Jesus is a significant trend in contemporary research into the historical Jesus, most scholars affirm the traditional view that Jesus prophesied the imminent end of the world. Since the 1990s, however, other scholars have pointed out the complexity of apocalypticism within
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portrayed Jesus as a failed apocalyptic prophet, and this analysis virtually put an end to historical inquiry into Jesus. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, critical historians returned to the topic of historical Jesus. Some of these scholars identified the apocalyptic imagery in the gospels as
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Matthew's version of the three authentic beatitudes were rated pink. The author has spiritualized two of them, so that they now refer to the poor "in spirit" and to those who hunger "and thirst for justice." Matthew also includes beatitudes for the meek, the merciful, the pure of heart, and
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In response to the airing of a two-hour ABC News documentary titled "The Search for Jesus" in June 2000, which featured Jesus Seminar scholars including Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, Coral Ridge Ministries produced the one-hour documentary "Who Is This Jesus". Hosted by actor
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of some of his disciples rather than physical encounters. While these claims, not accepted by conservative Christian laity, have been repeatedly made in various forms since the 18th century, the Jesus Seminar addressed them in a unique manner with its consensual research methodology.
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Are the verses used to introduce, explain, or frame other material, which might itself be authentic? For example, in Luke, the "red" parable of the good samaritan is framed by scenes about Jesus telling the parable, and the seminar deemed Jesus' framing words in these scenes to be
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The Fellows used a voting system to evaluate the authenticity of about 500 statements and events. For certain high-profile passages the votes were embodied in beads, the color of which represented the degree of confidence that a saying or act was or was not authentic:
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The Jesus Seminar treats the gospels as fallible historical artifacts, containing both authentic and inauthentic material. The Seminar fellows used several criteria for determining whether a particular saying or story is authentic, including the criteria of
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they prefer to what is the canonical Gospels and, in support of their preferences, attribute this material to more ancient sources. No ancient evidence confirms these theories, but the theories have been welcomed and widely publicized in the popular press.
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has stated: "The Jesus Seminar is not representative of the guild of New Testament historical scholarship today. Rather, it is representative of one voice within that guild, a voice that actually espouses a minority position on some key issues."
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A confidence value was determined from the voting using a weighted average of the points given for each bead; the text was color-coded from red to black (with the same significance as the bead colors) according to the outcome of the voting.
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pastor and theologian, "The Jesus Seminar represents an extremely small number of radical-fringe scholars who are on the far, far left wing of New Testament thinking. It does not represent mainstream scholarship." New Testament scholar
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argues that the principal presuppositions of scientific naturalism, the primacy of the apocryphal gospels, and the necessity of a politically correct Jesus are unjustified and issue in a distorted portrait of the historical Jesus.
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The Jesus Seminar has come under intense criticism regarding its method, assumptions and conclusions from a wide array of scholars and laymen. Scholars who have expressed concerns with the work of the Jesus Seminar include
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According to current estimates, the gospels were not written until decades after Jesus' death. Parables, aphorisms, and stories were passed down orally (30–50 CE). The fellows judged whether a saying was a short, catchy
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The Jesus seminar was active in the 1980s and 1990s. Early in the 21st century, another group called the "Acts Seminar" was formed by some previous members to follow similar approaches to biblical research.
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A long discourse attested in three gospels has Jesus telling his listeners not to fret but to trust in the Father. Fellows looked for this theme in other sayings they deemed authentic. For example, "
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Theissen, Gerd; Winter, Dagmar (2002). The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria (1st American ed.). Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-22537-3. OCLC 49805829
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has been sharply critical, saying "The Jesus Seminar is the latest example of a pseudo-scientific approach that is 'dogmatically' opposed to basic Christian dogmas, popularizing in the public mind
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The Jesus Seminar has generated a lot of debate because it finds little historical evidence for certain Christian beliefs, such as the virgin birth, the divinity of Jesus, and the resurrection.".
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Charlesworth, James H.; Pokorny, Petr, eds. (2009). Jesus Research: An International Perspective (Princeton–Prague Symposia Series on the Historical Jesus). pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-8028-6353-9.
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Distinguishing between oral and print cultures. Since Jesus lived and preached in an oral culture, scholars expect that short, memorable stories or phrases are more likely to be historical.
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Members of the Jesus Seminar have responded to their critics in various books and dialogues, which typically defend both their methodology and their conclusions. Among these responses are
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says that the non-apocalyptic view of the historical Jesus gained ground in the 1970s and 1980s when research into Jesus shifted out of religious environments and into secular academia.
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Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). Chapter 2. Christian sources about Jesus.
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The Seminar looked for several characteristics that, in their judgment, identified a saying as inauthentic, including self-reference, leadership issues, and apocalyptic themes.
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to explain Jesus' resurrection. Some view Crossan as an important voice in contemporary historical Jesus research, promoting the idea of a non-apocalyptic Jesus who preaches a
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sampling of those publications; a complete list of Jesus Seminar publications may be found at the Polebridge Press website, the in-house publisher for the Westar Institute:
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says "the old consensus that Jesus was an eschatological prophet who proclaimed the imminent end of the world has disappeared", and identifies two reasons for this change:
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Others have made the same point and have further indicated that thirty-six of those scholars, almost half, have a degree from or currently teach at one of three schools:
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argue that some other gospel translations have attempted to unify the language of the gospels, while they themselves have tried to preserve each author's distinct voice.
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as red, pink, gray, and black. Three beatitudes are judged to be "paradoxical" and are doubly attested. They are rated red (authentic) as they appear in Luke 6:20–21.
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that could possibly survive intact from the speaker's death until decades later when it was first written down. If so, it is more likely to be authentic. For example, "
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The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament by Andreas J. Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum 2009 ISBN 978-0-8054-4365-3 pp. 124–125
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J. Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 111-14
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Do the verses refer to the concerns of the early Christian community, such as instructions for missionaries or issues of leadership? For example,
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Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). p. 321
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In March 2006, the Jesus Seminar began work on a new description of the emergence of the Jesus traditions through the first two centuries of the
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Porter, Stanley E.; Hayes, Michael A.; Tombs, David (2004). Images of Christ (Academic Paperback). T&T Clark. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-567-04460-0.
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stated, "the conclusions reached by these scholars are inherent in the presuppositions and methods they have chosen to adopt from the outset."
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Dale C. Allison (Author), Marchus J. Borg (Author), John Dominic Crossan (Author), Stephen J. Patterson (Author), Robert J. Miller (Editor),
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Green, J.B., Brown, J., & Perrin, N. (2018). Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. IVP.
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lists seven bases for the modern critical scholarship of Jesus, claiming these "pillars" have developed since the end of the 18th century:
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Black beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus did not say the passage—it comes from later admirers or a different tradition. (0 Points)
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passing it on" while, in contrast, privileging extra-canonical texts with an uncritical acceptance that sometimes rises to the level of
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offers its readers several unique features. This volume is the premier publication of the Scholars Version translation of the gospels."
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demonstrated how two scholars with divergent theological positions can work together to creatively share and discuss their thoughts.
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Mitchell, Margaret M.; Young, Frances M., eds. (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 1. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-521-81239-9.
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British scholar of the New Testament, criticizes the Seminar for having not included "some of the best scholars in the USA, such as
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s. The seminars are the scholarly program units of Westar Institute. Westar publishes a bi-monthly magazine for the general public,
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Ehrman, B, (Feb 2, 2010), "Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)"
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Kinman, B. (1999). Parousia, Jesus "A-Triumphal" Entry, and the Fate of Jerusalem. Journal of Biblical Literature, 118(2), 279-294
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has been critical of the methods and conclusions of the Jesus Seminar with particular attention to Christological ramifications.
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Does the text have Jesus referring to himself? For example, "I am the way, and I am the truth, and I am life" (John 14:1–14)
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In addition to scholarly critiques, a number of conservative Christian organizations were critical of the Jesus Seminar.
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Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus by William R. Herzog (Jul 4, 2005) ISBN 0664225284 p. 8
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The work of The Jesus Seminar continued after the death of its founder (2005) and was succeeded by two seminars:
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Grey beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus did not say the passage, but it contains Jesus' ideas. (1 Point)
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tenets of the faith, there are just as many—if not more—scholars who hold to a much more conservative position.
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about Jesus when critically approaching the gospels. Members acted on the premise that Jesus did not hold an
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Protestant fundamentalism or Catholic orthodoxy, whichever the perspective from which the author is writing.
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Wright also discusses the work of Burton L. Mack, John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg in some detail.
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After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
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in Borg, Marcus J. and N. T. Wright. The Meaning of Jesus: Two visions. New York: HarperCollins. 2007.
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After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movement
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The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
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peace-makers. These beatitudes have no second attestation, lack irony, and received a black rating.
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Pink beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus probably said something like the passage. (2 Points)
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as historical sources that represent Jesus' actual words and deeds as well as elaborations of the
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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan
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John P. Meier, "The Present State of the 'Third Quest' for the Historical Jesus: Loss and Gain"
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Casey criticizes the Seminar for the "exaggerated importance which they have attributed to the
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Do the verses support an opinion or outlook that is unique to the gospel, possibly indicating
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without the use of ancient medicine or magic, relieving afflictions now modernly considered
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represents the first published appearance of the SV gospels. ..."; Introduction: page 1: "
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Wright, N. T. "Five Gospels But No Gospel", in Bruce D. Chilton and Craig A. Evans eds.,
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church suffered sufficient collective amnesia to accept the transformation as legitimate.
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has argued that the self-selected members of the group do not represent the consensus of
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Since the 1960s, some scholars have started to view the gospel references to the coming
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Schweitzer wrote that Jesus and his followers expected the imminent end of the world.
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anthropological studies to set the general background, narrow in on the history and
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Numerous scholars have criticized the Seminar for placing too much value on the
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and with the Gospel of Thomas but omitted material in other sources such as the
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did say the passage quoted, or something very much like the passage. (3 Points)
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To decide their collective view of the historicity of the deeds and sayings of
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Kee, Howard Clark, "A Century of Quests for the Culturally Compatible Jesus",
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Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching
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Kee, Howard Clark, "A Century of Quests for the Culturally Compatible Jesus",
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Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching
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Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man From Galilee
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to twist the meaning of Scripture, founded in the liberalism, modernism, and
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That All May Believe: A Theology of the Gospel and the Mission of the Church
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that are current in academia and mainline seminaries. Maurice Casey states:
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to use as textual sources. They published their results in three reports:
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Christian Cadre: The Jesus Seminar: Bad Philosophy Makes Bad Christianity
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The "Jesus Seminar:" Liberal Theologians Investigating the Life of Jesus
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Washington Times, Dec. 25, 2000, "TV Film aims for true story of Jesus".
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The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
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notes that if the Jesus Seminar's findings are to be believed, then:
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view that an unbridgeable gulf exists between Jesus and the church."
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in 2022, but notable surviving fellows of the Jesus Seminar include
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Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
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Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
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John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson, and Werner H. Kelber,
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The first findings of the Jesus Seminar were published in 1993 as
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one needs evidence to suppose that anything in them is historical.
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to prepare for the end of the world, indicate that he preached a
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on those who advocate any passage's historicity. Unconcerned with
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