Bruce Chilton

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1. John Dominic Crossan

   Author of The Historical Jesus, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated, In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom

2. Marcus J. Borg

   Author of Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

3. James D. G. Dunn

   Author of Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry Into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation, Jesus and the Spirit, Christian Liberty: A New Testament Perspective (The Didsbury Lectures)

4. John Shelby Spong

   Author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

5. Bruce Chilton

   Author of Rabbi Jesus, Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: Comparing Theologies

6. Géza Vermes

   Author of The Changing Faces of Jesus, Jesus the Jew, The Religion of Jesus the Jew

7. John P. Meier

   Author of A Marginal Jew : Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume One, The Roots of the Problem and the Person, Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2), Companions and Competitors (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 3)

8. E. P. Sanders

   Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Paul the Law and the Jewish People, Jewish and Christian Self-Definition: The Shaping of Christianity in the Second and Third Centuries

9. Joseph A. Fitzmyer

   Author of The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature), To Advance the Gospel: New Testament Studies, The Dead Sea scrolls : major publications and tools for study

10. Raymond E. Brown

    Author of Birth of the Messiah, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times, Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave (2 Vol. Boxed Set)

11. Richard N. Longenecker

    Author of Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period, The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity, The Road from Damascus (Mcmaster New Testament Studies)

12. Paula Fredriksen

    Author of From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

13. John Joseph Collins

    Author of The Apocalyptic Imagination, The Scepter and the Star (Anchor Bible Reference), Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora

14. Elaine Pagels

    Author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

15. Burton L. Mack

    Author of The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q, Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth

16. James H. Charlesworth

    Author of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic works, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Anchor Bible Reference), Jesus Within Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archaeological Discoveries (The Anchor Bible Reference Library)

17. Richard E. Friedman

    Author of The Hidden Book in the Bible, The Bible with Sources Revealed

18. James Barr

    Author of The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective, Fundamentalism, Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism

19. Bart D. Ehrman

    Author of Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend, The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

20. Anthony J. Saldarini

    Author of Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society, Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community