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Title: An unbalanced and therefore misleading review of scholarship
Review: This video series is a good introduction to the scholarship of the third quest for the historical Jesus and specifically of the so-called Jesus seminar. Unfortunately, that scholarship is at one end of the spectrum and is fairly controversial. What this series fails to do is to seriously consider the evidence and arguments of scholars who hold less radical viewpoints and who have raised serious objections to the kinds of claims made in the series. For a brief example of such scholarly objections, see http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Five_Gospels.pdfFor more complete treatments see:Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the GospelsWhat Have They Done with Jesus?: Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the BibleorDethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christto name a few.
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