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WT Sharpe · 11-22-2009, 10:49 PM

Although it's not billed as a skeptical publisher, the Westar Institute (home of the Jesus Seminar and publishers of The Five Gospels) does contribute to Enlightenment ideals by applying the methodologies of science and historical research to Biblical and Bible-related texts.

I recently send the following letter to them via snail-mail:

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Westar Institute
Polebridge Press
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301

Dear Good Folks and Scholars of the Westar Institute:

I love your work; but you folks need to catch up with the modern world. People are reading e-books now: Kindles, Sony Readers, and soon; Nooks!

What do you have for us? I’d buy a copy of The Complete Gospels in a heartbeat if it were available in an e-book format.

With warmest wishes for your continued success,

W.T. Sharpe

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While I realize that a book like The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar is not suited for the present generation of non-color e-book readers (in the book the Fellows of the Seminar employ a four-color code to rate whether words attributed to Jesus are things they feel the historical Jesus actually said), they do publish a considerable amount of other material that would be perfectly fine for e-ink displays.

11-22-2009, 10:49 PM	#10
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Although it's not billed as a skeptical publisher, the Westar Institute (home of the Jesus Seminar and publishers of The Five Gospels) does contribute to Enlightenment ideals by applying the methodologies of science and historical research to Biblical and Bible-related texts. I recently send the following letter to them via snail-mail: <><><> Westar Institute Polebridge Press Willamette University 900 State Street Salem, Oregon 97301 Dear Good Folks and Scholars of the Westar Institute: I love your work; but you folks need to catch up with the modern world. People are reading e-books now: Kindles, Sony Readers, and soon; Nooks! What do you have for us? I’d buy a copy of *The Complete Gospels* in a heartbeat if it were available in an e-book format. With warmest wishes for your continued success, W.T. Sharpe <><><> While I realize that a book like *The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus* by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar is not suited for the present generation of non-color e-book readers (in the book the Fellows of the Seminar employ a four-color code to rate whether words attributed to Jesus are things they feel the historical Jesus actually said), they do publish a considerable amount of other material that would be perfectly fine for e-ink displays. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 11-22-2009 at 10:54 PM.