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The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? the Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (Paperback)

by Robert Walter Funk (Author), Roy W. Hoover (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: HarperOne; Reprint edition (Jan 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 006063040X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060630409
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fresh encounter with the gospels, 19 Jun 1999
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This review is from: The Five Gospels, One Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Say? (Hardcover)
Putting aside the process whereby the Jesus Seminar determined which sayings were likely to come from Jesus, the new translation that has been produced to accompany the group's deliberations is itself bracing in its freshness. The gospel stories have been worn smooth through countless retellings, and most recent translations do little to bring us face to face with the themes that lie at the heart of the Jesus stories. This one is different.

Known as The Scholars Version, the text is excellent for reading aloud, and captures something of the individuality of each writer. This is one volume I am delighted to own, and will refer to again and again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A daring, fresh look at who Jesus might have been, 9 Jul 1998
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Using modern critical techniques to peel away 2,000 years of embellishments and modifications, the learned fellows of the Jesus Seminar courageously present a new vision of the Gospels and attempt to rediscover what message Jesus of Nazareth might have been presenting during his lifetime.

After a democratic discussion, each of the Seminar members voted on how "real" each of the statements commonly attributed to Jesus might be. What's left is this annotated, color-coded text, ranging in hues from red (almostly certainly said by Jesus) to pink to gray to black (absolutely not even close to what Jesus probably said), and an all-new picture of Jesus the man, with his simple and powerful message entirely separate and distinct from the one presented by organized Christianity.

This book is 100% worth a look by anyone interested in the history of divinity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Trading an imaginary Christ for a real Jesus...., 1 Oct 1998
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What did Jesus really say? Thomas Jefferson realized that the gospels contain parts that are authentic and parts that are not - he cut his bible up with scissors and paste and made the Jefferson Bible. The breakthrough in Christianity for the end of the second millenium, the scholars of the Jesus Seminar take all the most recent research and do the same thing, producing a scholarly consensus about the Gospels, separating what can be judged "authentic" from what was obviously added later. All other translations of the Gospels are authorized by various church councils and are subject to ecclesiastical and religious control. This book is compiled the way any other group of scientific data would be presented: eminent, well-credentialed scholars get together and form a consensus, and the results are published. And they are stunning. Traditional theologians (and "Christian" reviewers!) squirm in agony as their pompous clothes of medieval piety are stripped off by brilliant common sense scholarship. A great book which liberates the basis of Christianity from the medieval. Every home should have a bible - this is the one book of the Gospels I recommend.
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