The Acts of Jesus
The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar 
In their groundbreaking bestseller The Five Gospels, the scholars of the Jesus Seminar offered their analysis of the likely authenticity of the sayings of Jesus. Now, using the same color-coding technique
, this volume reports the equally thoughtful and provocative assessment of all the events in the gospels.For more than ten years, the Jesus Seminar has researched
and debated the life and death of the historical Jesus. They have concluded that the Jesus of history is very different from the icon of traditional
Christianity: Jesus did not walk on water, feed the multitude, change water into wine, or raise Lazarus from the dead. He was executed as a public nuisance, not for
claiming to be the son of God. And in the view of the Seminar, he did not rise bodily from the dead; the resurrection is based instead on visionary experiences of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
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Robert W. Funk is Director of the Westar Institute and founder of the Jesus Seminar.
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A Polebridge Press Book from HarperSanFrancisco
Hardcover, 576 pages, illustrated
1998 ISBN 0-06-062978-9 Copyright
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