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Marcus J. Borg
Marcus Borg is internationally known in both academic and church circles as a leading biblical and Jesus Scholar. Holder of the Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State university until his retirement in 2007, he is now canon theologian at Trinity Episcopal cathedral in Portland.
He is the author of seventeen books. Some of his most well known are:
The God We Never Knew (1997)
The Heart of Christianity (2003)
Jesus: The Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (2006)
The Last Week (2006) co-authored with John Dominic Crossan
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (1994)
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1998)
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time (2001)
The First Christmas (2007)
The First Paul (2009)
To be released in April, a Novel:Putting Away Childish Things
• Described by the New Your Times as "a leading figure in his generation of Jesus scholars," he has appeared on:
NBC’s "Today Show"
Dateline
PBS’s "Newshour"
ABC’s "Evening News"
Prime Time with Peter Jennings
NPR’s "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross
Several National Geographic programs
• A fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he has been national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee.
• Borg is Past President of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars.
• He is a regular columnist for "Beliefnet."
• His work has been translated into ten languages: German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and French.• Borg earned his doctorate degree in philosophy from Oxford University.
• He has lectured widely overseas in England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel, and South Africa.
