text: Sure, check out my rather neglected web page: www.mahayanatheology.net. Check the home page and go from there. Early on I read with profit J. D. Crossan, but he soon began to wander into far-left theology. Meier's first volume on Jesus, the Marginal Jew, seemed rather dry when first I read it, since it was so taken with setting up a methodology for historical Jesus studies, but his next three (still waiting for the last, fifth volume -- Meier has heath problems) knocked my socks off. His method differed from Crossan (and Funk, etc.) by not dating the Gospel of Thomas (or of  Peter of the Cross Gospel) so early, since most place them in the second century or later. Still, his guiding rule is attractive: whatever is concluded must meet the acceptance of an "unholy enclave," composed of a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, and an agnatic), so he could be reasonably sure his conclusions would meet the approval of people doing just history, rather than left (Ehrman) or right (Barth) theology.