Editing Jesus Seminar (section)

== Principal publications ==
The Jesus Seminar produced a significant number of publications both in the form of journal articles and books published for the general public.  Individual members of the seminar also produced, and continue to produce books which draw heavily upon the Seminar's work.  The following is a selected sampling of those publications; a complete list of Jesus Seminar publications may be found at the Polebridge Press website, the in-house publisher for the Westar Institute:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westarinstitute.org/store-home/|title=Welcome to the Westar Store|work=Westar Institute}}</ref>

* Borg, Marcus J.; '''Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time''': ''The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith''; HarperOne Imprints, HarperCollins; New York, New York:  1995.  978-0060609177
* Crossan, John Dominic; '''Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography'''; HarperOne Imprints, HarperCollins; New York, New York:  2009.  978-0061800351
* Funk, Robert Walter; Butts, James R.; Scott, Bernard Brandon; '''The Parables of Jesus''' ''(Jesus Seminar Series)''; Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  1988.  978-0944344071
* Funk, Robert Walter; ''et al.''; '''The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say?'''  ''The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus''; HarperOne Imprints, HarperCollins; New York, New York:  1996.  978-0060630409
* Funk, Robert Walter; ''et al.''; '''The Acts of Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do? '''; Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  1998.  978-0060629786
* Funk, Robert Walter; ''et al.''; '''The Gospel of Jesus''': ''According to the Jesus Seminar''; Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  1999.  978-0944344743
* Miller, Robert J.; ''et al.''; '''The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics''';  Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  1999.  978-0944344781
* Miller, Robert J.; '''The Complete Gospels'''; Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  2010. 978-1598150186
* Tatum, W. Barnes; '''John the Baptist and Jesus''': ''A Report of the Jesus Seminar''; Polebridge Press; Salem, Oregon:  1994.  978-0944344422

===Acts of Jesus===
In 1998 the Jesus Seminar published ''The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus''. To create the material for this book, they voted on the individual acts of Jesus as recorded in the gospels, much as they had previously voted on the individual sayings attributed to him.<ref name="Acts"/>

According to the Jesus Seminar:
* Jesus of Nazareth [[Nativity of Jesus|was born]] during the reign of [[Herod the Great]].
* His mother's name was [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Mary]], and he had a human father whose name may not have been [[Saint Joseph|Joseph]].
* Jesus was born in [[Nazareth]], not in [[Bethlehem]].
* Jesus was an itinerant [[Wise old man|sage]] who shared meals with social outcasts.
* Jesus practiced [[faith healing]] without the use of ancient medicine or magic, relieving afflictions now modernly considered [[psychosomatic]].
* He did not [[Jesus walking on water|walk on water]], [[Feeding the multitude|feed the multitude with loaves and fishes]], [[Marriage at Cana|change water into wine]] or [[Raising of Lazarus|raise Lazarus from the dead]].
* Jesus was [[Arrest of Jesus|arrested in Jerusalem]] and [[Responsibility for the death of Jesus|crucified by the Romans]].
* He was executed as a public nuisance, not for claiming to be the [[Son of God]].
* The [[empty tomb]] is a fiction – Jesus was not [[Resurrection of the dead|raised bodily from the dead]].
* Belief in [[Death and Resurrection of Jesus|the resurrection]] is based on the [[vision hypothesis|visionary experiences]] of [[Paul the apostle|Paul]], [[Simon Peter|Peter]] and [[Mary Magdalene]].