“Did Jesus actually say that?” This is the question New Testament scholars in the Jesus Seminar are asking. The Jesus Seminar has spent nearly five years scrutinizing every word in the Gospels attributed to Jesus. After analyzing each phrase by established criteria to determine its historical authenticity, the group votes, rating the degree of authenticity by color (black, gray, pink and red), from black for “almost certainly not” authentic to red for “yes, almost certainly” authentic. The goal of the Jesus Seminar is to publish (in 1991) The New Red-Letter Edition of the Five Gospels, in which the words […]