Our topic is one of the hottest buttons in biblical studies and is of enormous public interest. One sign of this public interest is that two books on the subject were recently reviewed on the front page of the New Your Times. When was the last time you can remember a book being reviewed on the front page of the New York Times? One of those books was written by Dom Crossan, who is one of our lec…
What does research on the historical Jesus have to do with Christian faith? What does the term "Son of Man" mean? Have scholars been looking for the wrong Jesus? What is the evidence for Jesus' existence outside the Bible? These are just some of the issues discussed by several of today's most famous experts in the debates raging about the historical Jesus--who he was, what he said and what he i…