The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics

The pioneering work of the Jesus Seminar has come in for high praise as well as searing denunciation from the press, the clergy, the scholars. Now a veteran member of the Seminar, Robert Miller, examines its agenda and its inner deliberations, dissecting the rationale of the Seminar's historical work and clearly explaining what its findings portend.In The Jesus Seminar and its Critics, Miller sets the record straight where necessary and even highlights the substantial points on which the Seminar and its critics agree. He weighs the major criticisms that have been put to the Seminar and exposes their hidden assumptions. He shows how critics use hostile rhetoric to duck uncomfortable questions that must be squarely faced in any honest assessment of the historicity of the gospels.

About the Author:

Robert J. Miller teaches Biblical Studies, World Religions, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion at Midway College in Midway, Kentucky. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar since 1986, he has contributed many papers to its deliberations. He is the editor of The Complete Gospels, an anthology of twenty early gospels presented in Westar's innovative translation, the Scholars Version. He has published many articles and essays on Jesus and the in both scholarly journals and general audience books and periodicals.