# Criterion of embarrassment #### (2022) - Wikipedia contributors **Link**:: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Criterion_of_embarrassment&oldid=1124247106 **DOI**:: **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@Wikipedia_contributors2022-wn] ### Abstract ``` The criterion of embarrassment is a type of historical analysis in which a historical account is deemed likely to be true under the inference that that the author would have no reason to invent a historical account which might embarrass them. Certain Biblical scholars have used this as a metric for assessing whether the New Testament's accounts of Jesus' actions and words are historically probable.[1] ``` ### Notes