Historical Jesus project

by Susan Polege

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I found these links from a search engine, looking up keywords. This is not even close to an exhaustive list, but it will be a good starting point in familiarizing oneself with the issues and stances of people involved in historical Jesus research.

KEYWORDS: Jesus Seminar
http://www.rim.org/muslim/jesusseminar.htm
This website is written by people who study Christian issues and Islam from a Christian perspective. Their information about the Jesus seminar is pretty accurate and their critique interesting, but they are defensive and obviously show their agenda of discounting the research.
*I want mine to be like this in the way that it's perspective...personal. But I don't like this site otherwise.

http://www.westarinstitute.org/index.html
This site is hosted by Westar Institue, home of the Jesus Seminar, so this is the best place to figure out what the Jesus Seminar is about in their own words, but it doesn't critique the Seminar.

*http://religion.rutgers.edu/jseminar/
This site is hosted by Rutgers University  Department of Religion, and the site was created  in the interest of the Jesus Seminar and scholarship.

http://www.intac.com/~rollins/ctm.html
This site is written by a group called Christianity of the Third Millenium, Inc. The site includes a faith statement to show what stuff this group thinks that Christianity is going to have to rethink to survive. The faith statement is very interesting, and they are supportive of biblical and historical research being incorporated into faith in Jesus.

http://www.draytonanglican.org.au/links.html
This site is a list of links to Jesus Seminar type stuff gathered by an Australian Anglican church. It is okay for a jumping off point, but it relates to Australia and Anglican churches quite a bit.

**http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html
This is a very informative site on the Jesus Seminar by Jimmy Williams. I like this one a lot. The information on the Jesus Seminar is treated with respect, but still questioned. I don't know if I agree with his conclusion, but it's well-done.

http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/pearson/seminar/home.html
This website is composed of chapters of a paper on the Jesus seminar. It is very critical, but brings up helpful criticisms.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jsem.htm
This website is all about the actual Jesus Seminar and records criticisms about the Seminar from conservative sources. It's written in entirely bulleted list format, however, which is difficult to read.

KEYWORDS: historical Jesus

http://www.richardmuller.com/
This website is by Richard Muller, author of "The Sins of Jesus", a novel. The site is an advertisement for his book, but some of the issues his book brings up are interesting relating to the historical Jesus.

http://www.concentric.net/~Mullerb/index.shtml
This website is by Bernard Muller, a historian critically researching historical Jesus. This site lists scriptural quotes and discusses them, and quotes from scholars, and sections on big issues in historical Jesus research.