Institute for Biblical Research

The Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) describes itself in the following terms: "an organization of evangelical Christian scholars with specialties in Old and New Testament and in ancillary disciplines. Its vision is to foster excellence in the pursuit of Biblical Studies within a faith environment." Its web site is here:

Institute for Biblical Research

The institute plans to have certain sub-groups, the first one of which is the IBR Jesus Group started by Darrell Bock and Robert Webb. This is clearly in some ways intended as a reaction to the Jesus Seminar, though its approach is different (e.g. no voting). The web site features two major essays which are part of this project:

Robert Webb, "Jesus' Baptism: Its Historicity and Implications"

Scot McKnight, "Jesus and the Twelve"

Thanks to Michael Pahl for drawing this to my attention. I've added the main link to my Societies page. I'll add the articles to the Historical Jesus pages later.