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Article: Real Jesus: the mistaken quest for the historical Jesus and the truth of the traditional gospels.
- Article from:
- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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Thanks to Maclean's, Time, News-week and other magazine and newspaper articles, many people are aware of the Jesus Seminar. This is a self-appointed cadre of biblical scholars whose quest for the historical Jesus centred first on the authenticity of his sayings in the Gospels. Usually, this kind of scholarly work is circulated only within journals or periodicals with limited readership. But the Jesus Seminar is adept at informing the mass-circulation media of results.
The first project was to vote upon the historicity of the words of Jesus recorded in the Gospels. Even their method of voting riveted the media on their proceedings. They voted by casting coloured ...