Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a breath-taking revival of historical-Jesus studies.Recovering the first-century Jesus matters more to Christian Origins scholars now than it has for over a century.Particularly in North America, the "Jesus Seminar" has reflected and enhanced this modern quest; 1 so too have several major studies, most notably E. P. Sanders' Jesus and Judaism 2 and John Dominic Crossan's The Historical Jesus. 3 The approach of the millenium-the year 2000, after all, elicits connections with Jesus' birth and return-ensures that this revival has not yet run its course.Anniversaries also form the matrix of this book, which emerges from two successive years of discussions held at the annual meetings of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies on June 8-9, 1993 and June 6, 1994.The year 1993 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Canadian J^earneds, the regular venue for members of the CSBS.It also marked, as some of us whimsically observed after our 1992 meeting, a more likely two-thousandth anniversary of Jesus' birth, a fitting occasion to address the burgeoning field of historical-Jesus studies.This synchronicity led to plans for a special CSBS seminar on the historical Jesus at the 1993 Carleton University Learneds in Ottawa, highlighting some of the major theorists in the field, and for a second round of assessments and analyses at the University of Calgary J^earneds the following year.Peter Richardson and I assumed organizational responsibility for these meetings.We were delighted to gain the participation of some of the most exciting historical-Jesus scholars from outside the country, as well as an exceptionally wide range of gifted Canadian academics.The 1993 session revolved around presentations by John Dominic Crossan (Chicago), Burton Mack (Claremont), Jane Schaberg (Detroit), Sean Freyne (Dublin) and Halvor Moxnes (Oslo)-with closing
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.571 | 0.375 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".