for the large differences in the portraits that result. Because the historian’s objective is often to discover a Jesus palatable to her own tastes, this pushes the deciding factor behind the historian’s portrait to horizon rather than method. She finds what she was looking for. Therefore, attention to method may reduce the amount of control a horizon has on a historian’s research, but it alone is inadequate.90 2. The historian’s horizon and method should be public. It is certain that at least portions