Wenham David - The message of Jesus : John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in dialogue

For Gary Habermas

A philosopher seeking after Jesus

Craig L. Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland; MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and BA from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. He has authored thirteen books and coauthored or coedited eight others, with over 130 articles and essays in print. His major publications are The Historical Reliability of the Gospels; Interpreting the Parables; Matthew (New American Commentary); 1 Corinthians (NIV Application Commentary); Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey; Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions; The Historical Reliability of Johns Gospel; Preaching the Parables; Contagious Holiness: Jesus Meals with Sinners; From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction and Survey of Acts-Revelation; James (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary), with Mariam J. Kamell; A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, with Jennifer Foutz Markley; and Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship for Life. He is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute of Biblical Research, the Tyndale Fellowship, the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Committee on Bible Translation for the NIV.

Darrell L. Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the seminarys Center for Christian Leadership. His special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, gospel studies, and the integration of theology and culture. He has served on the board of Chosen People Ministries for almost a decade and also serves on the board at Wheaton College. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (BA), Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM), and the University of Aberdeen (PhD). He has had four annual stints of postdoctoral study at the University of Tbingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar (19891990, 19951996, 20042005, and 20102011). He also serves as elder emeritus at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas, is editor at large for Christianity Today, served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society for the year 20002001, and has authored over thirty books, including a New York Times Best Seller in nonfiction. He is married to Sally and has two daughters (both married), a son, and two grandsons.

John Dominic Crossan is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University and former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar (19851996). He is one of the most influential New Testament scholars in contemporary scholarship and has authored more than twenty bestselling books on the historical Jesus, early Christianities, and the historical Paul. He has authored many books on Jesus and Paul, including The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), The Birth of Christianity (1998), God & Empire: Jesus Against Rome Then and Now (2007). He also coauthored Excavating Jesus (2001) and In Search of Paul: How Jesuss Apostle Opposed Romes Empire with Gods Kingdom (2004), both with archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed. He has lectured to lay and scholarly audiences across the United States as well as in Ireland and England, Scandinavia and Finland, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa. He has been interviewed on more than two hundred radio stations, including National Public Radios Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He has also been interviewed on numerous television shows such as ABCs PrimeTime, Peter Jennings Reporting, and Nightline, CBSs Early Show and 48 Hours, NBCs Dateline, and Fox Newss The OReilly Factor, and on cable programs such as A&E, History, Discovery, and the National Geographic Channel.

CraigA.Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College and Acadia University. Before his appointment at Acadia in 2002, he taught for twenty-one years at Trinity Western University, where he founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He has a BA degree from Claremont McKenna College, MDiv from Western Seminary, MA and PhD from Claremont Graduate University, and DHabil from Kroli Gspr Reformtus University in Budapest. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin for Biblical Research and has served on the editorial boards of Dead Sea Discoveries, Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, and others. His recent books include Matthew (Cambridge), Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence (SPCK/Westminster John Knox), Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls (B&H), Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Hendrickson), Jesus and the Ossuaries (Baylor), and, with N. T. Wright, Jesus, the Final Days (SPCK/Westminster John Knox). Professor Evans has appeared in programs and documentaries that have aired on History Channel, BBC, and Dateline NBC. Evans and his wife Ginny live in Kentville, Nova Scotia, located in historic Annapolis Valley, and have two grown daughters and a grandson.

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science. She is also Affiliated Professor, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Holding a BA from Smith College and MA and PhD from Duke University, she has honorary doctorates from the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, the University of South CarolinaUpstate, Drury University, and Christian Theological Seminary. She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association of Jewish Studies. Her recent books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperOne), The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us