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Article: Appointment in Jerusalem: A Search for the Historical Jesus.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 16, 1991
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ONE is always a little suspicious of anything calling itself "Higher." Things that are really lofty or transcendent are usually so by unspoken acknowledgment, and don't need the spatial modifier to remind us of the deference due them. Readers in search of a scholarly interpretation of the Gospels will therefore not be reassured to find the author identifying himself as a practitioner of "Higher Biblical Criticism." And indeed this, one discovers, is the modest name adopted by the whole field of modern Biblical critics, including 114 authors cited in a bibliography listing "New Views on Jesus."
In the old days, Max Dimont writes in Appointment in Jerusalem: A ...