Hugh Schonfield,

The Passover Plot (Dorset, Eng.: Element, 1965). Paints Jesus as a political revolutionary who deliberately provoked the authorities, then arranged to be taken down from the cross alive so he could “rise” again .

Elaine Pagels,

The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1979). The politics of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi documents .

John Dominic Crossan,

The Historical Jesus (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991). Jesus as Jewish peasant. Crossan writes clearly and passionately, making his later, more pop distillations of this work (of which the most notable is his 1995 book

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography ) largely unnecessary .

Barbara Thiering,

Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992). A dissident scholar’s view of the Dead Sea Scrolls as cryptograms about Jesus that reveal that he did not die on the cross but was later revived and traveled around the Mediterranean in the company of Peter and

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