Abstract
American libraries have on occasion been accused of censoring their own collections. While most charges are groundless, some cannot be easily dismissed. Because of recent widespread public and scholarly interest, “historical Jesus studies” was chosen as a test case for self-censorship in American academic libraries. Two groups of prominent Jesus scholars, Evangelical/ traditional and non-Evangelical/nontraditional, were polled about the best college-level books on historical Jesus studies. The results were checked against the book holdings of 100 randomly selected academic libraries using an independent t-test. The results found that the selected libraries as a whole were four times more likely to hold one or more of the non-Evangelical Jesus books than one or more of the evangelical Jesus books. Selection bias by librarians appears to be one possible explanation.
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