Borg, New Vision, pp. 28–38. Geza Vermes’s Jesus the Jew (New York: Macmillan, 1973), in fact, is also cited by A.N. Wilson and John Spong as a decisive influence. John Meier demonstrates just how little evidence there is on which to base such a “type” (see Marginal Jew, vol. 2, pp. 583–590).