What is Jesus Seminar?

A self-selected group representing a small subsection of New Testament scholars who believe that Jesus did not say 82 percent of what is attributed to him in the gospels. They also published The Five Gospels which includes a manuscript titled the Gospel of Thomas which was written in the second century. "They're explicit in saying they want to rescue the Bible from fundamentalism and to free Americans from the 'naïve' belief that the Jesus of the Bible is the 'real' Jesus" (pp. 114-115).