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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Volume Five, Probing the Authenticity of the Parables is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues instead that only four parables—those of the Mustard Seed, the Evil Tenants, the Talents, and the Great Supper—can be attributed to the historical...

No doubt those faithful readers who have journeyed with me down the long and dusty road of the quest for the historical Jesus have long since grasped the basic strategy that governs the ordering of topics in these volumes. Put simply, my strategy mimics the approach used in all sorts of contentious negotiations, from labor contracts to Middle East peace plans:
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