Launching of the Jesus Project in Miami by Dr. R. Joseph Hoffmann
Thank you to all that joined us for the launching of The Jesus Project. The event was well attended and participants asked many relevant questions. The Jesus Project examines an issue that could affect the central belief of more than a billion people. After 2000 years, eminent scholars think that the existence of Jesus as an actual human being is an open question that can be answered by contemporary scholarship. The project will begin in January 2008. Katherine Morales, an archeologist from our CFI Community of Miami was invited by Dr. Hoffmann to participate as one of the 50 scholars involved in the research.
Other Jesus Project scholars include James M. Robinson editor of the international Q Project and of the Nag Hammadi (Gnostic) Library project; Van Harvey, a leading philosopher and historian; Gerd Luedemann, a Jesus Seminar veteran; Robert Price, editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism; and other leading scholars in biblical studies, classics and ancient history, social anthropology and archaeology.
R. Joseph Hoffmann, Ph.D., is a specialist in the social and cultural history of early Christianity. Dr. Hoffmann is the chair of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER) at the Center for Inquiry. and He is formerly the Campbell Professor of Religion and Human Values at Wells College, New York; Professor of Civilization Studies at American University of Beirut; and Senior Research Scholar of St. Cross College, Oxford.
