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A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed is unavailable, but you can change that!

In A New Perspective on Jesus, renowned author James D. G. Dunn critiques the quest for the historical Jesus. He claims that the quest has been largely unsuccessful because it started from the wrong place, began with the wrong assumptions, and viewed the evidence from the wrong perspective. Dunn’s study offers three criticisms of questers’ methods. First, Dunn contends that scholars have failed...

archaeological research, has simply compounded the misunderstanding. The quest of the historical Jesus has been conducted as though it were like Madame Curie’s quest for radium, a process of filtering out all other elements until the final precipitate, the long-sought-for element itself was exposed to view. Or like the archaeologist digging down through layers of historical strata in the hope of uncovering some artifact in the earliest stratum that might explain why so much happened subsequently
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