On a Fulbright Scholarship, Maier studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland.
The book is a critical rebuttal of Dan Brown's 2003 topseller The Da Vinci Code.
In 2004, he was featured on the Christian daily talk show 100 Huntley Street in Canada for the entire year.
Maier appeared in a 2004 episode of the Showtime TV show, Bullshit!, entitled The Bible: Fact or Fiction?.
Maier also appeared on the TV series Mysteries of the Bible, in the episode titled "Paul The Apostle."