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Title: The Acts of Jesus : What Did Jesus Really Do? by Robert Walter Funk, The Jesus Seminar ISBN: 0-06-062978-9 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This is an excellent volume for scholars and students.
Comment: This book published by the Jesus Seminar, and edited by Robert Funk is an excellent volume for open minded Christians, scholars and students alike. This volume provides a good basis on which to base any future study of the gospels and other Jesus stories. The Jesus Seminar has done a thorough job of evaluating the sources for the gospels that many Christians read daily in their Bibles. They attempt to use not only the gospels, which have their problems as sources due to the synoptic problem, but they also include and evaluate a composition of Q, the gospel of Thomas, and infancy stories. All of these works have their problems as far as how they portray the historical Jesus, but the Seminar does a fine job of quantifying that for the reader. The one fault of the volume, is the fact that they may over compensate for the reader in an effort to find that same elusive historical Jesus. They tend to use outside source information that may not be deemed reliable such as Josephus who's passages in his Antiquties concerning Jesus sound much more like an early Christian apologist and not the writings of a Jew and a Roman of which he was both. Overall, however, this volume is an excellent work and one that should be applauded in it's intent and scope.
Rating: 5
Summary: Through a mirror dimly, then face to face
Comment: This a good book, one of many good books to read on the subject. Like it's companion book -- the Five Gospels what did Jesus really say -- it's an attempt to determine the historical veracity of the New Testament. Understandably, it's an inquiry that would be deemed offputting to the faithful. Interestingly enough, all too few realize that this type of scholarship started some two hundred years ago and was joined early on by no less than Thomas Jefferson himself whose Jefferson Bible (like the books here in question) deny the bonafides of New Testament miracles. Where the Jesus seminar writes their account of the miracles in black (their lowest designation of historical credibility), the Jefferson Bible (formally published after Jefferson's death) simply eliminates them.
For biblical exegis I must say that I prefer the method of Richard Friedman who's recent the Bible With Sources Revealed simply restates the first five books designating for each section the source from which Friedman believes the passage originated. Applying such a method to the New Testament, one could do what the seminar did, but recount each phrase indicating its source (e.g. the hypothetical Q document, Ur Mark and the like). In this fashion, speculation could be made at to the creation of the New Testament by revealing it in its various formative stages. In my humble opinion such an approach would more closely comport with a historical examination of the document.
Be that as it may, the books are fascinating reading and one of many to be considered in better understanding the historical Jesus.
Rating: 5
Summary: Take a Big Step Beyond Dogma and Expand Your Mind
Comment: The Jesus Seminar is controversial, but deep down I think these guys are as faithful as anyone, in that they care deeply about Jesus' transformative message of neighbor love and social justice which Jesus described as God's rule on earth. If you are a literalist and think that the search for truth ends when your pastor opens his mouth, then maybe this book is not for you. But if you believe that God gave us all the ability to think, and if you wonder about the historical contexts in which the Gospels were written, then this book will fascinate you. You might not agree with their conclusions, but the Jesus Seminar will give you the information you need to decide for yourself.
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Title: The Five Gospels : What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk ISBN: 006063040X Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 29 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics by Robert J. Miller, The Jesus Seminar, Me ISBN: 094434478X Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar by Robert Walter Funk, Jesus Seminar ISBN: 0944344747 Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version by Robert J. Miller ISBN: 0944344496 Publisher: Polebridge Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Historical Jesus : The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant by John Dominic Crossan ISBN: 0060616296 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 26 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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