• Profiles of Jesus. Collection of 14 articles by Fellows of the Jesus Seminar, presenting glimpses of Jesus drawn from the data base of reports of sayings & deeds that the Seminar agreed presented reliable historical evidence. Edited by Roy W. Hoover [10/10/02].

• The Gospel according to the Jesus Seminar.  A scholarly reconstruction based on passages from canonical gospels & Thomas that the Seminar voted as presenting historically reliable information about Jesus. Edited by Robert W. Funk [3/5/99].

• The Acts of Jesus. Jesus Seminar report on the authentic deeds of Jesus, edited by Robert W. Funk [4/1/98].

by Mahlon H. Smith

• Gibson Agonistes: Anatomy of a Neo-Manichean Vision of Jesus. Critical analysis of Mel Gibson's controversial film, The Passion of the Christ [2/25/04].

• Israel's Prodigal Son: Reflections on Reimaging Jesus. Methodological essay on constructing a profile of Jesus [8/30/98].

• A Little Leaven: Jesus in Dialectical Perspective. A profile in progress [7/11/98].

by G. Richard Wheatcroft
Center for Progressive Christianity
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• A Credible Jesus: Fragments of a Vision - by Robert W. Funk.

• Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts -  by J. Dominic Crossan & Jonathan L. Reed

• The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning - by Stephen J. Patterson.

• In Quest of Jesus (revised edition) -  by W. Barnes Tatum

• Jesus Before God: The Prayer Life of the Historical Jesus - by Hal Taussig.

• Jesus the Man: An Introduction for People at Home in the Modern World -  by Marvin F. Cain

• The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions - by Marcus J. Borg & N. T. Wright.

• Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up - debate between William L. Craig & J. Dominic Crossan (ed. by Paul Copan) .

• A Portrait of Jesus: From Galilean Jew to the Face of God. Cam Howard summarizes Marcus Borg's reconstruction of the pre- & post-Easter Jesus [5/5/98].