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I've begun to read Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. I haven't read this duo's other books on Abraham Lincoln and Robert F. Kennedy.
I'm not far into this book but I can already say that it takes a much different approach from The Last Week by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. The Borg/Crossan book takes texts from the Gospels and gives historical and cultural contexts. The O'Reilly/Dugard approach seems to be this: choose a point in time and write an imagined, almost novelistic retelling of what they believe might have taken place. It's very effective in drawing you into the story but I'm not sure how accurate everything is.
I have to say that I'm only as far as the initial scene-setting, where the authors have talked about the ailing and anxious Herod, the slaughter of the innocents, and now the authors have stepped backward to explain the Roman Civil Wars. It's a very macroscopic way to go about things.
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