Transcription of The “Criteria” for Authenticity
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Robert H. Stein, The criteria for Authenticity , France & David Wenham, eds., Gospel Perspectives, Vol. 1, Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1980. The criteria for Authenticity Robert H. Stein [ ] It is evident from even a cursory reading of the literature that scholarly attitudes toward the historicity of the gospel materials vary drastically. On the one side we have those scholars who possess a positive attitude toward the gospel materials and state In the synoptic tradition it is the inauthenticity, and not the Authenticity , of the sayings of Jesus that must be demonstrated .1 On the other side we have those who possess an equally negative attitude toward the materials ..clearly, we have to ask ourselves the question as to whether this saying should now be attributed to the early Church or to the historical Jesus, and the nature of the synoptic tradition is such that the burden of proof will be upon the claim to The latter view clearly presumes that the gospel traditions are guilty, historically not true, unless they can be proven innocent.
Robert H. Stein, “The ‘Criteria’ for Authenticity,” R.T. France & David Wenham, eds., Gospel Perspectives, Vol. 1, Studies of History and Tradition in the ...
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