What Are The Odds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19477906 |
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| Authors | Sean F Everton, Sean Everton (0000-0002-2733-9149, 1Associate Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, ca, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-42 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-8690 • E-ISSN: 1745-5197 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/17455197-01301002 |
| OpenAlex | W244396489 |
| Language | EN |
In 1985 a group of New Testament scholars, who came to be known as the Jesus Seminar, gathered to vote on the authenticity of the sayings of Jesus. Although the Seminar argued that it followed objective rules of evidence, critics have claimed that it did not. This paper investigates these claims using statistical models to evaluate the Seminar’s own voting records. It finds that although the Seminar’s Fellows did follow widely accepted criteria, they were also influenced by their own assumptions about who Jesus was. In particular, they appear to have assumed that Jesus was a non-apocalyptic enfant terrible who spoke in aphorisms and parables and occasionally uttered things that later embarrassed the early Church
Art · Biblical studies · Genealogy · Historical Jesus · Literature · Logistic regression · New Testament · Odds · Political science · Politics · Statistics · Theology · Voting · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · History · Law · Mathematics · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Highly cited | No |
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