A founding member of the Jesus Seminar, HALTAUSSIG isa pastor, professor ofBiblical literature at Union Theological Seminary in NewYork, and professor of early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is the author ofIn the Beginning Was the Meal; The Thunder: Perfect Mind; A New Spiritual Home; Reimagining Life Together in America (with Catherine Nerney); Jesus Before God; Reimagining Christian Origins (with Elizabeth Castelli), and others.