User:Ari89/proposedpolicy

Proposed additions to wp:RS.

What cannot be used as a reliable source on historical Jesus studies:
 * 1) Anything written by a Christian scholar, no matter their credentials and teaching positions, as they are unable to "put their prejudices to one side."
 * 2) Anything published by an academic Christian publisher even if they are the publisher of key historical Jesus studies by scholars of all religious and ideological persuasions.
 * 3) Any non-Christian author that in some way supports the Historicity of Jesus as the scholarly position within the academic field.

Subject to the above three criteria, what can be used as a reliable source on the historical Jesus are as follows:
 * 1) Anything by a non-expert that goes against scholarly consensus. For example, a philosopher writing against mainstream scholarly consensus on the historicity of Jesus is to take precedence.
 * 2) A source by an ancient historian subject to the three rules of not being - (1)a Christian academic; (2) published in an academic Christian press; (3) a non-Christian that agrees with the observable academic consensus.