JETS 44:2 (June 2001) p. 208 ludicrous. The Jesus Seminar “has radically and consistently underplayed the specifically Jewish dimension both of [Jesus’] culture itself and of [his] agenda for it” (58). Wright even raises the question if such a view is essentially anti-Jewish and cites the analogy of the Nazi scholars in the 1920s and 1930s who sought to eliminate the Jewishness of Jesus (79 n. 233). In his critique of the “New Quest” Wright also examines the views of Burton Mack, J. Dominic Crossan,