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Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Criteria of authenticity has held a prominent place in scholarly research regarding the historical Jesus. Its roots go back to before the pioneering work of Albert Schweitzer and have become a unifying feature of the third quest for the historical Jesus. However, scholars from different methodological frameworks have expressed growing discontent with this approach to the historical Jesus. In this...

Standing next to this point about the gist of ineradicable high Christology, and probably a part of it, is that memory studies reveal that what we remember, too, is an interpretation. Dunn’s student, Anthony Le Donne, has deepened the connection between memory and history by showing that memory involves refraction, typology, and interpretation, so that an interpretive element is ineradicable from the memory.30 What we remember is a filter of what impressions were made on us, and that filter is an
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