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
What Jesus reportedly said about bread and wine at the Last Supper passes the criterion of multiple attestation.
Historicity of Jesus
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The historicity of Jesus is the debate "on the fringes of scholarship" and in popular culture regarding whether Jesus historically existed or was a purely mythological figure. Mainstream New Testament
Criterion of multiple attestation
…multiple attestation, least distinctiveness and Aramaic linguistic background. Porter suggests three new criteria in the search for the words of the historical Jesus (Porter 2000), which have not yet found broad acceptance: a criterion of Greek language, of Greek textual variance and of "discourse features" at…
Jesus as the Good Shepherd; middle of 3rd-century.
The crucifixion of Jesus as depicted by Mannerist painter Bronzino (c. 1545)
The Baptism of Jesus by Juan Fernández Navarrete (16th century)
An 11th-century Byzantine manuscript containing the opening of the Gospel of Luke