Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels -  Luke Timothy Johnson pdf

Disputes the claim of the Jesus Seminar that Christianity is based on the historical figure of Jesus found in the Old Testament.
Written as a response to the increasing number of books that supposedly reveal the 'real' historical nature of Jesus, this volume effectively demolishes the reliability of the 'historical criticism' technique that has been touted as some sort of magic formula that can lead to the Gospels being discounted as fact