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A Marginal Jew, Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Volume Two, Mentor, Message, and Miracles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here is the celebrated second volume in John P. Meier’s series on the life of Jesus, in which he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest puzzle of modern scholarship: Who was Jesus? Volume 1 concluded with Jesus approaching adulthood. In this second volume, the author grapples with the words and deeds of Jesus during his public ministry. A vivid portrait of Jesus emerges through...

Those who have read Volume One of A Marginal Jew know that it is largely programmatic, a prolegomenon to the work as a whole, an extended method-plus-introduction. It lays out the problem of the historical Jesus, the method to be used to meet the problem, information about Jesus’ origins and background, and finally a rough chronological grid of his life. With this setting of the stage Volume One ends. It is only the present volume, Volume Two, that
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