Irish-American New Testament scholar who co-founded the Jesus Seminar and wrote The Historical Jesus — arguing that Jesus was primarily a Jewish peasant social revolutionary and Cynic sage rather than an apocalyptic prophet — making him one of the most prominent and controversial historical Jesus scholars.
Argues that Jesus's ministry was characterized by open commensality (eating with anyone regardless of purity status) and free healing (outside the temple system) — a social program that was as politically revolutionary as it was spiritually transformative — challenging both the temple establishment and Roman rule.
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