What Are The Odds?
In 1985 a group of New Testament scholars, who came to be known as the Jesus Seminar, gathered to vote on the authenticity of the sayings of Jesus. Although the Seminar argued that it followed objective rules of evidence, critics have claimed that it did not. This paper investigates these claims usi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2015
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Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Année: 2015, Volume: 13, Numéro: 1, Pages: 24-42 |
| RelBib Classification: | HC Nouveau Testament TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
quest for the historical Jesus
Jesus seminar
apocalyptic
criteria of authenticity
rules of evidence
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| Résumé: | In 1985 a group of New Testament scholars, who came to be known as the Jesus Seminar, gathered to vote on the authenticity of the sayings of Jesus. Although the Seminar argued that it followed objective rules of evidence, critics have claimed that it did not. This paper investigates these claims using statistical models to evaluate the Seminar’s own voting records. It finds that although the Seminar’s Fellows did follow widely accepted criteria, they were also influenced by their own assumptions about who Jesus was. In particular, they appear to have assumed that Jesus was a non-apocalyptic enfant terrible who spoke in aphorisms and parables and occasionally uttered things that later embarrassed the early Church. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Contient: | In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-01301002 |