came from Rudolf Bultmann in his History of the Synoptic Tradition. However, the following casual formulation of this criterion is made only incidentally regarding similitudes: ‘We can only count on possessing a genuine similitude of Jesus where, on the one hand, expression is given to the contrast between Jewish morality and piety and the distinctive eschatological temper which characterized the preaching of Jesus; and where on the other hand we find no specifically Christian features’.13 Elsewhere