John Dominic Crossan

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1. John Dominic Crossan

   Author of The Historical Jesus, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated, A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth

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. John Shelby Spong

   Author of A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born, Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality, Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality

4. Robert W. Funk

   Author of The Five Gospels the Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium, The Acts of Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do?

5. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings

6. 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

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. Richard A. Horsley

   Author of The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World, Bandits, Prophets & Messiahs, Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine (Facets)

9. Raymond E. Brown

   Author of An Introduction to the New Testament, Birth of the Messiah, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times

10. E. P. Sanders

    Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion, Jesus and Judaism

11. Robert C. Culley

    Author of Semeia 21: Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy, Semeia 5: Oral Tradition and Old Testament Studies, Semeia 3: Classical Hebrew Narrative

12. Daniel Patte

    Author of Semeia 26: Narrative Discourse in Structural Exegesis: John & 1 Thessalonians, Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement, Semeia 29: Kingdom and Children: Aphorism, Chreia, Structure

13. Walter Wink

    Author of Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (The Powers : Volume One), Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man

14. Burton L. Mack

    Author of The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q, Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth, A myth of innocence: Mark and Christian origins

15. 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

16. William A. Beardslee

    Author of Semeia 24: Old Testament Interpretation from a Process Perspective, Semeia 13: The Poetics of Faith, Part 2: Imagination, Rhetoric, and the Disclosures of Faith, Semeia 12: The Poetics of Faith, Part 1: Rhetoric, Eschatology, and Ethics in the New Testament

17. Géza Vermes

    Author of Jesus the Jew, Jesus in His Jewish Context

18. Matthew Fox

    Author of Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest

19. Rudolf Bultmann

    Author of Primitive Christianity in its contemporary setting, Theology of the New Testament, The History of the Synoptic Tradition

20. Peter J. Gomes

    Author of The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?