Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond

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Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond is written by Kevin B. Burr and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004549021 (ISBN 10) and 9789004549029 (ISBN 13).

Are the criteria of authenticity of Jesus research idiosyncratic to New Testament studies, vehicles of subjectivity, and fundamentally flawed vestiges of form criticism as some claim today? If so, why do opponents of the criteria-approach still use them? Or, are the criteria the tools of general historiography as others assert? If true, none have adequately demonstrated where and how principles such as multiple attestation, general and historical coherence, dissimilarity and embarrassment feature in general historiographic method—until now. This study analyzes the methods of general historians and Jesus researchers (who favor or oppose the criteria) and demonstrates that, regardless of sub-discipline, authenticating criteria are inherent to the practice of historiography.