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Willi Marxsen, Introduction to the New Testament, trans. G. Buswell (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968), pp. 59–68.

Morton Smith, The Secret Gospel (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).

See Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, ed. Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Krodel (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).

Meier, Marginal Jew, vol. 1, pp. 1–40.

See Funk’s opening remarks in Forum 1/1 (1985), 12. The works by these authors are examined more fully in my newly published study; see Luke T. Johnson, The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest of the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).

Borg, New Vision, p. 20, n. 25; Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship, pp. 59–61.

T.W. Manson, “The Failure of Liberalism to Interpret the Bible as the Word of God,” in The Interpretation of the Bible, ed. Clifford W. Dugmore (London: SPCK, 1944), p. 92.

John Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, 2 vols. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1991–1994). Meier’s work does not, in the main, fall under the summarizing comments I make in this article. For an appreciation and critique of his volumes, see my reviews, “A Marginal Mediterranean Jewish Peasant,” Commonweal 119 (April 1992), pp. 24–26; and “Testing the Gospel Story,” Commonweal 121 (November 1994), pp. 33–35.

Charlotte Allen, “Away with the Manger,” Lingua Franca (February 1995), pp. 1, 22–30.

Russell Shorto, “Cross Fire,” GQ (June 1994), pp. 117–123.