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His ''magnum opus'' is the series ''A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus''. In it, he employs tools of modern research to delineate who Jesus Of Nazareth was and what he intended. He suggests that these tools might admit agreement of Catholic , Protestant , Jewish , and Agnostic scholars. Volume 1 (1991) differentiates the Historical Jesus from the Biblical Jesus . It analyzes sources, including the New Testament , non- Canon ical works, Josephus , and other Jewish and Pagan works. It discusses the origins of Jesus , his background, and early years and provides a chronology of his life. Volume 2 (1994) examines Jesus’s relationship to John The Baptist , Jesus’s message of the Kingdom Of God and its antecedents, and accounts of Jesus’s Miracles in ancient and modern minds. Volume 3 (2001) places Jesus in the context of his followers, the crowds, and his competitors (including Pharisees , Sadducees , Essenes , Samaritans , Scribes , and Zealots ) in first-century Palestine . A fourth and final volume of the series is in progress to address Jesus’s teachings on the Law, his Parables and self reference, and The Passion . Meier is the author of six other books and more than 50 scholarly articles. He was editor of ''The Catholic Biblical Quarterly'', president of the Catholic Biblical Association, and a professor of New Testament at the Catholic University Of America . He is currently a professor in the Department of Theology at the University Of Notre Dame . SELECTED BOOKS John P. Meier, ''A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus'', Anchor Bible Reference Library, Doubleday,
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