What do you think of the jesus seminar?

I'm trying to learn more about the New Testament: historical context, original authors, literary meaning, etc. I've read a few books by scholars who are part of the Jesus Seminar, as well as responses from their skeptics. I'm just curious what anybody...

else thinks of this group.

The Jesus Seminar is really the starting point for historical analysis of early Christianity. Prior to that, there was simply too much intermingling of apologetics and history (and in general there still is, as the vast majority of Biblical scholars also hold theology degrees). Even the Jesus Seminar didn't go far enough.

One of the things that came out of the Jesus Seminar, was the realization that the very existence of Jesus as a historical figure had never been examined in 2000 years (except by the radicals). So to remedy that, a new project is being kicked off of similar scholarly caliber to the Jesus Seminar, known as the Jesus Project. They plan to finally analyze head-one whether or not Jesus actually existed as a historical person.

The first 4 chapters of Why I Believe by Dr. James Kennedy is a pretty good look into the archological claims of the bible as well as other areas of apologetics.