Hal Taussig is a retired professor and a progressive United Methodist pastor, and author focusing on early Christianity.
from Methodist Theological School in Ohio and a Ph.D. from Union Institute & University.
[1] He taught at Union Theological Seminary for 17 years; as well as Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Chestnut Hill College; and was co-pastor at Chestnut Hill United Church in Philadelphia; as well as a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.
[4] Taussig was chair of the 19-member council of scholars and religious leaders which compiled the book A New New Testament, which added 10 newly discovered texts from early Christianity such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Acts of Paul and Thecla to the standard New Testament canon.
[6] After Jesus Before Christianity, which was co-authored with Erin Vearncombe and Brandon Scott, explores early Christianity in line with Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity which argues that the early Christian movement was much more diverse than previously believed; as well as exploring concepts of family, identity, and gender in the early church.