kingdom of God is variously misinterpreted among influential Seminar members as a “mystical perception of self” (so Marcus Borg) or as egalitarian community (so John Dominic Crossan).12 In its red-letter edition of the Gospels, the Jesus Seminar chose to translate “kingdom of God” (Greek, basileia tou theou) “God’s imperial rule.” This curious rendering shows that the Seminar simply does not know what it is talking about.13 The expression “kingdom of God” is neither difficult nor complicated when