Bible Review

Richard Hays of Duke University provides a list of important graduate institutions without members of the seminar on the faculty: Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Duke, the University of Chicago, Union Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt, Southern Methodist University and Catholic University (“The Corrected Jesus,” First Things [May 1994], p. 47). Luke Johnson redacts Hays’s list of institutions to include Emory, where Johnson teaches (see “Jesus Seminar’s misguided quest,” p. 16).

Johnson, “Jesus Seminar’s misguided quest,” p. 16.

Ben Witherington goes so far as to characterize the seminar as “a very carefully self-selected group” (Jesus Quest, p. 43). But a group that accepts all qualified applicants cannot control who joins.

Luke Johnson, “The Jesus Seminar’s misguided quest for the historical Jesus,” The Christian Century (January 3–10, 1996), p. 17.

Ben Witherington III, The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995), p. 44. For a thorough critique of this book, see Robert J. Miller, “Can the Historical Jesus Be Made Safe for Orthodoxy? A Critique of The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington III,” Journal of Higher Criticism 4.1 (Spring 1997).

For the range of rabbinic views see H|anoch Albeck in Seder Zera’im (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1957), p. 383 (Hebrew).

U.N. Report, p. 30.

U.N. Report, p. 45.

U.N. Human Development Report (1993), p. 37.

Yonah Bar-Maoz, “The ‘Misharum’ Reform of King Ammisaduga” in Researches in Hebrew and Semitic Languages (Tel Aviv: Bar-Ilan, 1980), pp. 40–74.