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Kerry Temple, “Who Do Men Say That I Am?” The Humanist (May/June 1991), pp. 7–15.

Cullen Murphy, “Who Do Men Say That I Am,” The Atlantic Monthly (December 1986), pp. 37–58.

Most notably, John Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991); Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994); and Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).

Although Mack’s work is not explicitly part of this quest, his two major works are closely aligned to the methods and presuppositions surveyed here; see Burton Mack, A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) and especially The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993).

Barbara Thiering, Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking the Secrets of His Life Story (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).

Marcus Borg, Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987); Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994) and Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994).

Stephen Mitchell, The Gospel According to Jesus (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).

A.N. Wilson, Jesus (New York: Norton, 1992).

John Spong, Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992) and Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994).

The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, ed. Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar (New York: Polebridge Press, 1993).