
Jesus Quests
Undeceptions with John Dickson
Anglican Aid - The Second Quest
The Jesus Seminar is a group of American scholars mainly led by Robert Funk. They vote on whether a certain saying or deed of Jesus is authentic. The result was a revision of the Gospels published for the popular market in 1993, complete with colour coding. In these Gnostic Gospels, Jesus is stripped of his Jewish identity and his preaching of a future kingdom. And instead he appears as a simple teacher of universal wisdom. It's just too obvious from too many lines of evidence that Jesus really was a devout Jew. A devout Jew of particular kind for sure, but certainly a Jew.
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