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The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Jesus Quest, Ben Witherington offers the first comprehensive determination and assessment of what scholars are really saying about Jesus. In addition to the controversial views of John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and Burton Mack, he presents and interacts with the work of important scholars such as Geza Vermes, E. P. Sanders, Gerd Theissen, Richard Horsley, John P. Meier, N. T. Wright and...

avoiding contact with the latter and having nothing good to say about the former. An important dimension of the power structure of Palestine during Jesus’ day was the religious leadership. The high priest performed both political and religious roles, not least because he was the head of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish high council. Under Roman occupation, the one group of leaders we might expect Jews to have held in high regard would be the priests, Levites and other religious
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