The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar

Birger A. Pearson
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

NB: This article appears as originally submitted it to the Claremont Graduate School for publication as no. 35 in the “Occasional Papers” series of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Dr. Pearson’s Preface refers to an “Afterword” supplied by Prof. James M. Robinson, which is not available on this web site. Also, the version of the Preface/Article presented here was subsequently reformatted in Claremont (with footnotes instead of endnotes). It was published in April of 1996.

1. The Jesus Seminar

2. Quests of the Historical Jesus

3. Methodology of the Jesus Seminar

4. Historical Premises of the Jesus Seminar

5. The “Scholars Version” Translation

6. The Jesus Seminar’s Interpretation of its Data Base

7. Concluding Observations

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