C. F. Potter, a Qumran Essene; for Geza Vermes, a Galilean holy man; for Burton Mack, a wandering Cynic preacher; for John Dominic Crossan, a Mediterranean Jewish peasant Cynic; for Marcus Borg, a countercultural charismatic; for Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, a feminist founder of an egalitarian community; for Barbara Thiering, a man who married Mary Magdalene, had two sons and a daughter, divorced Mary and married another woman, and died in his sixties; for A. N. Wilson, a Galilean sage who taught