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They try to ask who he was, what he did, what he said, and what his sayings meant, using a number of tools.
They use cross-cultural anthropological studies to set the general background, narrow in on the history and society of first-century Palestine, and use textual analysis ( along with more anthropology and history ) to focus on Jesus himself.
Their methodology, which was developed by a team of scholars ( who expounded papers for the review of other Fellows and published many in Forum ) and is explained in The Five Gospels ( the four canonical gospels plus the Gospel of Thomas ), involves canvassing the records of the first four centuries for traditions about Jesus and sifting them by criteria such as multiple attestation, distinctiveness, and orality.
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