"Powerfully challenging the scholarship of the media-hungry Jesus Seminar, respected New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christian faith is founded not upon a historical Jesus that scholarship can reconstruct, but on the resurrected Jesus proclaimed by the New…
Presents a new perspective on the real life of Jesus based on biblical and historical scholarship and debunks many arguments arising out of the "Jesus Seminar."
Johnson challenges the controversial findings of the Jesus Seminar, which attributed only a small percentage of the total text said to be spoken by Jesus in the traditional Gospels to the real historical man. By using critical Biblical scholarship to study the group's findings i…
"Powerfully challenging the scholarship of the media-hungry Jesus Seminar, respected New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christian faith is founded not upon a historical Jesus that scholarship can reconstruct, but on the resurrected Jesus proclaimed by the New…
The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the eschatology of the Jesus Seminar and its portrait of a non-apocalyptic Jesus. The Seminar challenges Christianity as it shares its portraits of Jesus through a variety of avenues. The primary sources used for understanding the …
"For over a decade, the Jesus Seminar, a group of more than seventy-five internationally recognized biblical scholars - experts in such diverse fields as Greco-Roman history, archaeology, and linguistics - has met twice yearly to conduct a painstaking search for the authentic Je…