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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: 0-06-063040-X Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 29 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Liberal Look At the Words of Jesus
Comment: The Jesus Seminar, whether famous or infamous depends on your religious barometer. This is not a book for the conservative Christian who accepts every word written in the gospels, Acts and the Letters to be the actual words of Jesus, written by his Apostles, (which the evangelists were not). If you are an open-minded seeker of truth and are not easily shocked by religious controversy, you will delight in this easily readable unbiased examination of the Words of Jesus and the attempts by the Seminar to pin down what really was said and by whom, 2000 years ago.
The Seminar is a group of liberal biblical scholars, with a historical perspective on Jesus. They, herein vote on the efficacy and accuracy of the recording of Jesus' words. Sentances in RED are those they believe probably came from the lips of the Master, pink, gray and black denote how the vote rated the words attributed to Jesus, only about 20% of which are accepted as most likely his ideas, as he might have spoken them.
The of the rest of the gospels are seen as either created by the evangelists, writing 35 - 83 years after his death as more shedding light on their problems within the infant church of their day, than Jesus' struggles in his. Much of the rest of the material (of the gospels) is not rejected but instead subjected to varying degrees of uncertainty as to whether or not they were the original words and intent of Jesus or simply created by writers, redacters and revisionists, from tradition, hearsay, educated guesses by the evangelists om what Jesus might have said in certain situations, and/or insertions of self-serving, propaganda by biased others.
If you enter the reading in a searching mode, ready and open to all ideas on who Jesus was and what he really did say, you will find this book very engaging. I was not at all threatened by the content, but a Catholic Fundamentalist friend was outraged by it. The book is simply an example of scholars doing what they are supposed to do, theorizing on something of which we have precious little unbiased material.
Have fun!
Rating: 5
Summary: Trading an imaginary Christ for a real Jesus....
Comment: What did Jesus really say? Thomas Jefferson realized that the gospels contain parts that are authentic and parts that are not - he cut his bible up with scissors and paste and made the Jefferson Bible. The breakthrough in Christianity for the end of the second millenium, the scholars of the Jesus Seminar take all the most recent research and do the same thing, producing a scholarly consensus about the Gospels, separating what can be judged "authentic" from what was obviously added later. All other translations of the Gospels are authorized by various church councils and are subject to ecclesiastical and religious control. This book is compiled the way any other group of scientific data would be presented: eminent, well-credentialed scholars get together and form a consensus, and the results are published. And they are stunning. Traditional theologians (and "Christian" reviewers!) squirm in agony as their pompous clothes of medieval piety are stripped off by brilliant common sense scholarship. A great book which liberates the basis of Christianity from the medieval. Every home should have a bible - this is the one book of the Gospels I recommend.
Rating: 2
Summary: With their views, why are they wasting their time?
Comment: This book purportedly attributes about 18% of Christ's words to him, and effectively makes the "historical" Jesus an ineffectual and ambivalent savior at best. Furthermore, the gospel writers are painted as plagiaristic authors with conflicting stories, poor memories and cleverly crafted insertions borrowing from mystical writings. To this I ask, other than to prove over 1 billion people wrong, create a windfall in financial gain, or for academic exercise, why are these otherwise highly intelligent scholars wasting precious time on a topic that ultimately has little perceived value other than to be an inaccurate historical account whose oldest surviving copies are dated over 175 years after the death of Jesus? In my view, they have demonstrated the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be toothless, exceedingly errant, and more importantly, a farce of grand proportions foisted upon a hope seeking public by fundamentalist zealots.
From the Scholar's Version it appears the Gospel of Jesus Christ has very little value except for a few homilies and moral concepts spoken by a man in which people may place a most tenuous faith at best. I believe these scholars are clearly missing the larger context of the gospels with scholarship that runs counter to the science of modern day textual criticism that readily indicates the authenticity of the gospels. These are exceedingly foolish men with absolutely no heart for God. I think the Apostle Paul speaks to this best in 1 Corinthians 1:18-20 (NIV): "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.' Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
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Title: The Acts of Jesus : What Did Jesus Really Do? by Robert Walter Funk, The Jesus Seminar ISBN: 0060629789 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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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: Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium by Robert Walter Funk ISBN: 0060627581 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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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