"In the last forty years he has written twenty-seven books on the historical Jesus, the apostle Paul, and earliest Christianity. Five of them have been national religious bestsellers for a combined total of twenty-four months. The scholarly core of his work is the trilogy from The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) through The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus (1998), to In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom, co-authored with the archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed (2004). His work has also been translated into thirteen foreign languages, including Polish, Hungarian, Russian, as well as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
He has lectured to lay and scholarly audiences across the United States as well as in Ireland and England, Scandinavia and Finland, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa. He has been interviewed on 200 radio stations, including four times on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross. He has been interviewed on television networks in England--such as Weekend TV, Channel 4 and the BBC; also in the United States--such as ABC's PrimeTime, Peter Jennings Reporting, and Nightline, CBS' Early Show and 48 Hours, NBC's Dateline, and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, as well as on cable programs such as A&E, History, Discovery, and the National Geographic Channel.
Marcus Borg and Dom Crossan have co-authored a series of books with HarperOne, San Francisco: The Last Week: A Day by Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem (2006); The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about the Birth of Jesus (2007); and The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon (2009).
His most recent books are The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer (published by HarperOne, San Francisco, on September 7, 2010, followed by The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became Fiction about Jesus (published by HarperOne on March 6, 2012). He was elected Vice President of the Society of Biblical Literature for 2010-2011 and President for 2011-2012."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Yf6a4rzK0
"Iran is never far from U.S. news headlines. Nuclear threats, unfair
elections, captive reporters, a lack of religious freedom, all seem to
demand that we do something. But what is to be done? What are the actual
conditions in Iran, and what kind of leverage do we in the Western
world, and particularly in the U.S. have to effect change? Last summer,
Stephanie Zvan was privileged to chat with Dr. William Beeman, professor
of anthropology at the University of Minnesota and a leading Western
scholar of Iran. They discussed the intersection of religion and
politics in Iran, U.S.-Iranian relations, and the culture of Iran,
including conditions for women. Some of what she learned surprised her.
It may surprise you too...."
