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Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus's final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church's traditional teachings.
"The Last Week" depicts Jesus giving up his life to protest power without justice and to condemn the rich who lack concern for the poor. In this vein, at the end of the week Jesus marches up Calvary, offering himself as a model for others to do the same when they are confronted by similar issues. Informed, challenged, and inspired, we not only meet the historical Jesus, but meet a new Jesus who engages us and invites us to follow him.
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The Jesus Seminar, founded in 1985, was a group of over 100 scholars tasked with using an array of research methods to reconstruct the life of the historical Jesus by answering questions about who he was, what he did, what he said, and what his sayings meant. The result was a radical Jesus who preached a gospel of liberation from injustice. One very different than who Christians learn about every Sunday. This drew heavy criticism from conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists in the US. In The Last Week two of the most renowned members of the Jesus Seminar collaborate to bring a day-by-day account of Jesus' final week. Using the Gospel of Mark, (the first gospel to be composed) as a guide they uncover the political meaning of Holy Week. This is a very insightful read and I would recommend to all who observe Lent to make reading this a part of their Lenten practice.