RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jesus Seminar, Robert W. Funk, John Dominic Crossan
22 Feb 2018
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New interests in known text (josephus), and advancements in archaeology. Establishment of scholarly societies: discuss big questions together as a group that teamed up, jesus seminar. We had to see the context around jesus: creating a network so that jesus can emerge from within, new methods not necessarily from theological stance. New quest: jesus didn"t focus on end of world. Founded by robert funk; involved 200 + scholars. Captivated the attention of the public (media); it was made up by scholar who were interested in biblical studies. The media portrayed them as a negative collective b/c it was not necessarily theological - more assessing historical probabilities. N. t. wright (working against the jesus seminar) Any episode has to be re-assessed afresh, and they made a catalog of teaching. The rst ve years: teaching 1985-1991: establish an exhaustive list of sayings they catalogued about 1500 different versions of about 500 sayings.
