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	Robert Funk, founder of Jesus Seminar - The Boston Globe
		Among the Jesus Seminar's assertions was that many of the miracles attributed to Jesus never occurred, at least in a literal sense.
		Among the critics of the Jesus Seminar was religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.
		Jesus, he said, was ''one of the great sages of history" but not the man portrayed in a surface reading of the New Testament.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/09/09/robert_funk_founder_of_jesus_seminar (477 words)

	Jesus Seminar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jesus Seminar is a controversial research team of about one hundred academic New Testament scholars founded in 1985 by the late Robert Funk under the auspices of the Westar Institute.
		Jesus was born in Nazareth, not in Bethlehem.
		Jesus was arrested in Jerusalem and crucified by the Romans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesus_Seminar (1600 words)

	from jesus to christ: jesus many faces: searching for jesus
		I think that this approach to the study of Jesus actually is correct in the sense that even the early Christians looked at Jesus in a way that suited their needs for the development of the church and the Christian religion at the time.
		One of the controversial things that the Jesus Seminar has done is to take very, very seriously extra-canonical materials, and among those extra-canonical materials, at least for the words of Jesus, the Gospel of Thomas, discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, is quite crucial.
		For example, the Jesus Seminar comes out in saying that the three beatitudes of the Sermon on the Plain -- the blessing of the poor, the blessing of those who are hungry, the blessing of those who weep -- these are the most original parts of the tradition....
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/searching.html (3041 words)

	Jesus.Com.Au - Library - Jesus Seminar - 4. Are the Gospels Reliable?
		One of the facets of the Jesus Seminar that has most irked scholars outside the Seminar, evangelical and non-evangelical alike, is their tendency to equate their opinions with what "scholars" in general hold to.
		And, despite the presumptuous claims of the Jesus Seminar, the thrust of most of this literature is to argue that the "burden of proof" should generally lie on the part of the historian who wants to argue that what an ancient document is reporting is not true.
		The approach of the Jesus Seminar participants and other liberal scholars in the media today presupposes that there was a rather large gulf between the Jesus of the history and the early church which wrote the Gospels.
	www.jesus.com.au /library/jesus_seminar/gospels.php (5402 words)

	Jesus Seminar
		The Jesus Fellows, on the basis of their naturalistic bias, conclude that at least the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) could not have been written at the time tradition and many New Testament scholars assume they were.
		The Jesus Scholars have declared that the Gospel of Thomas and the Q Source were written within the forty years between Jesus' death and the fall of Jerusalem, pushing forward the writing of the four canonical gospels (a necessity on their part to uphold their theory) to very late in the first century.
		On the basis of the Gospel of Thomas and Quelle, the Jesus Fellows believe the historical Jesus was simply a sage, a spinner of one- liners, a teller of parables, an effective preacher.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/jesus_seminar.html (4844 words)

	The Jesus Seminar: Conservative and Liberal Views
		The techniques used by the Jesus Seminar are often called by the theological term "biblical criticism:" "the study of the sources and literary methods employed by the biblical authors.
		The Jesus Seminar's fiercest critics, conservative Christians, assume that biblical writings are totally accurate descriptions of historical events; that the writings are inerrant; and that the authors were inspired by God.
		Jesus did not believe that his execution was necessary in order for those who trust in him as Lord and Savior would be saved from eternal damnation.
	www.religioustolerance.org /chr_jsem.htm (2728 words)

	Jesus Seminar Forum - Home Page
		The Jesus Seminar Forum is an introduction to the research of the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute and a bridge to Jesus scholarship on line.
		All of Seminar's Fellows are scholars with advanced degrees that attest to their qualification to interpret primary source materials about Jesus and Christian origins.
		The Jesus Seminar is a project of the Westar Institute, a center for scholarly research on issues of cultural importance in western religion.
	www.virtualreligion.net /forum (678 words)

	The Jesus Seminar: Decisions of Authenticity
		The reasons for this judgment are: (1) it is Jesus' style to speak in figures that cannot be taken literally; (2) the application of the saying is left ambiguous; (3) the saying is well attested; (4) the saying is short and memorable.
		Jesus' audience, which was made up of Judeans, would have viewed the story through the eyes of the victim in the idtch: the parable prompts them to think of the identification of their neighbor as a different ethnic group.
		It exhibits the kind of unconventional features that are characteristic of the parables Jesus told: the judge grants the widow's request not because her case has merit or because he is impartial and just in his verdicts.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /jsem.html (3716 words)

	The Jesus Seminar: A Brief Rebuttal
		Thus, to the Jesus Seminar, Jesus was not in his lifetime “of one Being with the Father;” nor, according to Borg, the “Messiah or …the Son of God in some special sense”.
		Jesus is not just another teacher or one more “mediator of the sacred” on par with Mohammed. He is the perfect and ultimate manifestation of the sacred.
		[ix] This and the subsequent 5 quotes are by Robert W. Funk (founder of the Jesus Seminar), The Gospel of Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels”;, The Fourth R (November/December 1993), p.
	www.intotruth.org /apostasy/J-Seminar.htm (1944 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: The Jesus Seminar
		The Jesus Seminar: The Slippery Slope to Heresy
		Jesus initially warned against those who call themselves Christian but are false teachers, describing them as wolves in sheep's clothing (Matthew 7:15).
		The participants in the Jesus Seminar followed the historical-critical (theological) approach to voting on the sayings of Jesus which begins on the faulty presuppositions of literary, form and redaction theories (see Glossary).
	www.watchman.org /reltop/slipslop.htm (1753 words)

	The Jesus Seminar
		The Jesus Fellows, on the basis of their naturalistic bias, conclude that at least the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) could not have been written at the time tradition and many New Testament scholars assume they were.
		The Jesus Scholars have declared that the Gospel of Thomas and the Q Source were written within the forty years between Jesus' death and the fall of Jerusalem, pushing forward the writing of the four canonical gospels (a necessity on their part to uphold their theory) to very late in the first century.
		On the basis of the Gospel of Thomas and Quelle, the Jesus Fellows believe the historical Jesus was simply a sage, a spinner of one- liners, a teller of parables, an effective preacher.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html (3016 words)

	Unmasking the Jesus Seminar
		So, though the Jesus Seminar gathered a number of scholars, and though some of its methods were the stuff of critical scholarship, and though some of the fellows are fine biblical scholars, the Seminar itself was not a truly academic exercise.
		The average person would be led to believe that the Seminar as a whole held that a saying was probably not from Jesus, even though the truth was that 1) there was a wide diversity of opinion, and 2) the majority of Fellows considered the saying to be probably or certainly from Jesus.
		As I mentioned in a previous post, this is an example of where the Jesus Seminar uses the scholarly tool known as the criterion of dissimilarity, though with a reckless abandon that boggles the mind.
	www.markdroberts.com /htmfiles/resources/unmaskingthejesus.htm (9847 words)

	Westar Seminars
		Launched in 1985, the Seminar was organized to discover and report a scholarly consensus on the historical authenticity of the sayings and events attributed to Jesus in the gospels.
		The Seminar on the Acts of the Apostles, which began deliberations in 1999, will evaluate and report on the historical authenticity of the Acts in much the same way as the Jesus Seminar reviewed the sayings and events in the gospels.
		In the case of the Jesus Seminar's deliberations on the words of Jesus, for example, it was deemed entirely consonant with the mission of the Seminar to decide whether, after careful review of the evidence, a particular saying or parable did or did not fairly represent the voice of the historical Jesus.
	www.westarinstitute.org /Seminars/seminars.html (609 words)

	Jesus Seminar
		Robert J. Miller assesses this 1995 criticism of the Jesus Seminar and the author's claims that Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher and embodiment of divine wisdom [Journal of Higher Criticism 4.1 (Spring 97) 120-137].
		Robert J. Miller reviews scholarly critiques of the Seminar with particular attention to the issues of consensus, voting, apocalyptic, the gospel of Thomas and the Jewishness of Jesus.
		Roy Hoover, one of the fellows of the Jesus Seminar, reviews the broadside attack on the Jesus Seminar entitled, Jesus Under Fire.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/theism/christianity/seminar.html (258 words)

	Review Essay: The Corrected Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The aims of the Jesus Seminar are generally consonant with the work of historical scholarship since the Enlightenment: the participants seek to reconstruct the history of earliest Christianity.
		The Jesus Seminar adopts the standard two-source theory as a solution to the synoptic problem: Mark is the earliest of the three synoptic gospels; in composing their gospels, Matthew and Luke used Mark along with a hypothetical common source Q (short for the German Quelle: "source"), consisting primarily of sayings of Jesus.
		The second consequence is that the "Jesus" who emerges from this procedure is necessarily a free- floating iconoclast, artificially isolated from his people and their Scripture, and artificially isolated from the movement that he founded.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9405/articles/revessay.html (3701 words)

	Answering the Jesus Seminar
		The Jesus Seminar should have taken as watchword, not "Beware of finding a Jesus entirely congenial to you", but, more candidly, 'Beware of finding a Jesus entirely congenial to them,' as the "party animal" Jesus they 'found' may be congenial to some, but not to those who own Him as Lord.
		Yet the Jesus Seminar insists that no such accounts were ever offered to the eager public, only accounts by people who did not know the Lord and knew no one who had.
		The efforts of this class of scholars, of whom the Jesus Seminar is the most egregious example, serve to manufacture a Jesus with whom they can come to terms, who is no threat to their sense of themselves.
	thriceholy.net /seminar.html (6133 words)

	The Jesus Seminar
		The attendant publicity was designed to guarantee an awareness of, and stimulate interest in, the work of the Jesus Seminar among the general public, and to create a ready readership for the published results.
		It should be noted that the results of the Jesus Seminar's work do not reflect unanimity; many of the same sayings got red votes from some and fl votes from others.
		Thus, it cannot be assumed that all of the scholars listed in the Roster of the Fellows of the Jesus Seminar (The Five Gospels, 533-37) agree with everything presented in the commentaries to individual pericopes.
	www.veritas-ucsb.org /library/pearson/seminar/js1.html (761 words)

	The Search for the Real Words of Jesus
		The seminar was composed of specialists in the New Testament Gospels.
		The Jesus Seminar, of course, does not think the biblical Gospels are the word of God.
		Jesus said of us: "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (verse 29).
	www.wcg.org /lit/jesus/realwords.htm (3060 words)

	Jesus Seminar
		Since that first meeting in 1985, the Seminar has rejected the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the virgin birth, all of the miracles found in the Gospel accounts, and over 80% of the teachings normally attributed to Jesus.
		Therefore, the general statement and presupposition of the Jesus Seminar is that the New Testament accounts of Jesus (especially the Gospels) are not historical, and thus, not a credible source of information for the true historical Jesus.
		The Jesus Seminar is viewed by the publishing media and general public as a group of refreshing scholars that base their “new findings” of Jesus on scientific and historical analysis.
	www.allaboutreligion.org /jesus-seminar.htm (594 words)

	Jesus Seminar Description
		The Jesus Seminar was organized under the auspices of the Westar Institute to renew the quest of the historical Jesus and to report the results of its research to more than a handful of gospel specialists.
		The complete results of the Jesus Seminar deliberations on the sayings of Jesus were published in 1993 as The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus.
		During the second phase of the Jesus Seminar, which lasted from 1991 to 1996, the Fellows examined 387 reports of 176 events, in most of which Jesus is the principal actor, although occasionally John the Baptist, Simon Peter, or Judas is featured.
	www.westarinstitute.org /Jesus_Seminar/jesus_seminar.html (1295 words)

	The Truth of Christ vs. The "Jesus Seminar"
		Miller points to "two glaring deficiencies in Jesus scholarship." The first is a "scholarly silence" on the "data base" for the "historical Jesus." In other words, Miller and the Seminar feel that scholars have failed to review the Gospels in a comprehensive, "historical-critical" manner.
		Assuming that the Seminar could logically reconcile this problem, their faux-objectivity glares from many other sources, not the least of which is Robert Funk himself.
		As far as I can tell, the Jesus Seminar is nothing more than the work of atheists and skeptics who have a sincere desire to put their names in lights, sell books, and mislead people who are scripturally illiterate.
	www.hymnsite.com /JesusSeminar.html (1024 words)

	Jesus Seminar Forum - About Site
		The official icons of the Jesus Seminar on these pages are property of Polebridge Press and are used with permission.
		The name is superimposed on a grid indicating the Seminar's methodical sifting of information to distinguish authentic traces of Jesus from elements that obscure him (represented by the fl background).
		The practice of voting with colored beads was revived by the Jesus Seminar to sort out the elements in the gospels that can reliably be credited to Jesus himself from material that probably originated elsewhere: elements traceable to a particular gospel writer or shared by other ancient authors (Christian, Jewish, Greek or Roman).
	virtualreligion.net /forum/about.html (833 words)

	Who does the Jesus Seminar really speak for? - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Overall, the Jesus Seminar is composed of Protestants, Catholics, and atheists, professors at universities and seminaries, one pastor, three members of the Westar Institute in California which sponsored the project, one filmmaker, and three others whose current occupations are entirely unidentified.
		The real Jesus, we are told, would more likely have said something like, “Treat people in the way they want to be treated.” Unfortunately, the JS did not apply this more “noble” approach to the Jesus of the Gospels.
		That is to say, the teachings of Jesus were not written down when He first spoke them but were passed along by word of mouth over a period of decades.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-eden/edn-t017.html (4511 words)

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