LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY roseross)

I don't know if a link to this site is already available -- sorry if this is redundant. It was suggested to me that the information might be generally useful.

The Jesus Seminar is held by a group of scholars concerned with the historical accuracy of the New Testament. They present papers to one another and then gather to vote on which quotes and actions in the NT seem likely to have been generated by a single source (a historical Jesus) and which seem likely to have been added later. They then report the consensus of the group, and have published the results in two books.

This page has quite a few good articles from The Fourth R, their periodical. For instance, How The Canon Was Formed is a good, one-page summary of historical events leading to the creation of The Bible as we know it today.

Hope it's useful. :-)