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Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring—just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media. Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and...

kingdom of God is variously misinterpreted among influential Seminar members as a “mystical perception of self” (so Marcus Borg) or as egalitarian community (so John Dominic Crossan).12 In its red-letter edition of the Gospels, the Jesus Seminar chose to translate “kingdom of God” (Greek, basileia tou theou) “God’s imperial rule.” This curious rendering shows that the Seminar simply does not know what it is talking about.13 The expression “kingdom of God” is neither difficult nor complicated when
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