Random Wikipedia trivia: Paul Verhoeven, the director of Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers, is also a member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars dedicated to crafting a view of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. He just wrote a book about Jesus (I couldn’t find it on Amazon). Though his status as a scholar of Jesus is questioned by many because his PhD is not in biblical studies, but math and science.