- Hardcover: 569 pages
- Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (27 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060629789
- ISBN-13: 978-0060629786
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.8 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,025,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For over a decade, the Jesus Seminar, a group of more than seventy-five internationally recognized biblical scholars - experts in such diverse fields as Greco-Roman history, archaeology, and linguistics - has met twice yearly to conduct a painstaking search for the authentic Jesus. Through rigorous research and debate, they have combed the gospels for evidence of the man behind the myths. The figure they have discovered is very different from the icon of traditional Christianity. The Acts of Jesus presents and illuminates the historical and literary evidence that led to the Seminar's often controversial conclusions. It provides the reader with immediate access to the latest scholarship in historical Jesus research today.
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The Sayings Gospel Q reports very few activities of Jesus. Read the first page
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
As Jew married to a Christian, and who's children, given free will choose Christanity, I have always been put off by the New Testament either the King James or Revised Standard Edition.
So it was a marvelous suprise to find this book, As soon as I read the introduction I knew this is a book I yearned for for 53 years. Here is the real Jesus, minus the overlay of a Christian sect using him to there own agenda. I have lived my life using many of the teachings of Jesus especially the sermon on the Mount.
However, to convert to Christanity one needs to really understand the man. To me Jesus is not the Christ,created by Paul, Mary and Peter, but another great leader like Moses, Mohatma Ghandi, Mohammad, or Buddha. In that textual assumtion one can believe in Jesus and his teaching and not get caught up in theology. Too many Christians, like too many Jews, or Mohamadans profess their allegence to their faith but rarely follow it's teachings. Just imagine a world where we would all do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Hate,war, bigotry, man's inhumanity to their fellow man would vanish. Then one could truly beleive in a Messiah that changed the world. Now we can only understand the Acts of Jesus and try to practise what he preached.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This book published by the Jesus Seminar, and edited by Robert Funk is an excellent volume for open minded Christians, scholars and students alike. This volume provides a good basis on which to base any future study of the gospels and other Jesus stories. The Jesus Seminar has done a thorough job of evaluating the sources for the gospels that many Christians read daily in their Bibles. They attempt to use not only the gospels, which have their problems as sources due to the synoptic problem, but they also include and evaluate a composition of Q, the gospel of Thomas, and infancy stories. All of these works have their problems as far as how they portray the historical Jesus, but the Seminar does a fine job of quantifying that for the reader. The one fault of the volume, is the fact that they may over compensate for the reader in an effort to find that same elusive historical Jesus. They tend to use outside source information that may not be deemed reliable such as Josephus who's passages in his Antiquties concerning Jesus sound much more like an early Christian apologist and not the writings of a Jew and a Roman of which he was both. Overall, however, this volume is an excellent work and one that should be applauded in it's intent and scope.
3 of 20 people found the following review helpful
The Jesus Seminar and Robert Funk continues the same old story of recreating Jesus in any way that they can to remove him from the religious world. Their intellectual dishonesty is smeared across the pages to expose their real agenda - convince you that Jesus was nothing more than a sage and try to convince you that Jesus, God and religious standards are foolish and restrictive.
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