Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
Read by Alan Sklar

Two of today’s top historical Jesus experts explore the last seven days of Jesus’s life, from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his march to the cross.

What was—and is—Passion Week really about? Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, bestselling authors and leading Jesus scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan shed new light on Jesus’s final days in Jerusalem, revealing their true significance in history and for faith. Rather than collapse Holy Week into its last three days, as the Christian liturgy does, they use as their basis the gospel of Mark: a chronicle of Jesus’s last week day-by-day and eventually hour-by-hour.

Jesus entered Jerusalem knowing he would directly challenge the Roman Empire. Each day, tensions mounted as people were asked to choose which way they would follow: the Empire of power, or Jesus’s revolutionary way of love, forgiveness, and grace. Borg and Crossan portray Jesus as someone who dared to face imperial wrath to bring a new way of life. Their goal: To retell a story everyone thinks they know too well and most do not seem to know at all.

Audiobook    Unabridged; 8½ hours on 7 CDs
1-59887-037-8 (CD) The Last Week by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan

Marcus J. Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and author of the bestsellers Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and Jesus: A New Vision.

John Dominic Crossan has written several bestselling books including The Historical Jesus and Who Killed Jesus? Crossan is professor emeritus of religious studies at DePaul University in Chicago.