In 1985, the Jesus Seminar grew out of the efforts of Robert Funk and the Westar Institute whose stated "twofold mission is to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public." The Jesus Seminar's main goal has been to identify a clearer picture of who Jesus really was. In their words, the Jesus Seminar has sought to "discover and report a scholarly consensus on the historical authenticity of the sayings (phase 1) and events (phase 2) attributed to Jesus in the gospels." The members, a mix of well-known schlolars and unfamiliar names, vote on lines of biblical scripture as being historically accurate, may accurate, not so accurate and definitey not accurate. The results have been both highly lauded and strongly condemned.
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