Endnote 1 – How Did Jesus Die for Our Sins?

For important recent studies of the interweaving of history and theology in the Gospel stories of Jesus’ death, see Raymond Brown, The Death of the Messiah (New York: Doubleday, 1994), and John Dominic Crossan, Who Killed Jesus? (HarperSanFrancisco, 1995). These two books argue for quite different positions and represent a spectrum of opinion in contemporary scholarship.