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The Criteria for Authenticity in Historical-Jesus Research: Previous Discussion and New Proposals is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historical-Jesus research continues to captivate the interests of scholars, and recently, there has been renewed discussion of the criteria for authenticity. The first half of this volume reviews the state of play in historical-Jesus research and examines the criteria in particular. One chapter is devoted to the so-called ‘Quests’, and a second critically charts the development of the criteria in...

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
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