Criterion of embarrassment
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The criterion of embarrassment is a type of historical analysis in which a historical account is deemed more likely to be true if the author would have no reason to invent a historical account which m
Baptism of Christ by Francesco Albani. Since it positions John as superior to Jesus, the criterion of embarrassment has been used to argue for the historicity of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.
The criterion of multiple attestation, also called the criterion of independent attestation or the cross-section method, is a tool used by Biblical scholars to help determine whether certain actions o
Criterion of embarrassment
…authenticity used by academics, the others being the criterion of dissimilarity, the criterion of language and environment, criterion of coherence, and the criterion of multiple attestation. The criterion of embarrassment is an important tool of New Testament research. The phrase was used by John P. Meier in his 1991 book A Marginal Jew…
What Jesus reportedly said about bread and wine at the Last Supper passes the criterion of multiple attestation.