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Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture
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Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
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The Changing Faces of Jesus
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Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
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The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar
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Case for Christ: A Journalists Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
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Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
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An Introduction to New Testament Christology
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Who Wrote the Bible?
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