For example, John Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus (Doubleday, 1991; see Marcus Borg’s review in Bible Books, BR 08:03). Also, J.D. Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (Harper, 1991); E.P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Fortress, 1985); and Borg, Jesus: A New Vision (Harper, 1988).