ETS 2003, Atlanta, Georgia
Excavating Jesus or Inventing a Jesus?
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by those who seek to properly interpret Scripture; as long as they continue to be bound by the
presuppositions of historical and social science criticism in general, and the Jesus Seminar in
particular, and a minimalist view of Scripture rather than that of an inspired and inerrant text,
their evaluation and interpretations will be of little more value than The Da Vinci Code
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whose literary genre their works more closely resemble.
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Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code. (New York: Doubleday Publishers, 2003).