Series Preface
Editors’ Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1 Classic Voices
Introduction (James D. G. Dunn)
Albert Schweitzer - The Solution of Thoroughgoing Eschatology
Rudolf Bultmann - View-Point and Method
Henry J. Cadbury - The Cause and Cure of Modernization
Martin Kähler - Against the Life-of-Jesus Movement
Part 2 Methodology
Introduction (James D. G. Dunn)
Rudolf Bultmann - “I”-Sayings
Joachim Jeremias - Characteristics of the Ipsissima Vox
Bruce Chilton - Regnum Dei Deus Est
John P. Meier - Criteria: How Do We Decide What Comes from Jesus?
Eugene E. Lemcio - The Past of Jesus in the Gospels
James D. G. Dunn - The Tradition
Part 3 Teachings of Jesus: God, Kingdom, Ethics, Parables, and Old Testament
Introduction (James D. G. Dunn)
W. G. Kümmel - The Pressing Imminence of the End
Joachim Jeremias - ’Abba as an Address to God
N. T. Wright - Kingdom Redefined: The Announcement
E. P. Sanders - Jesus and the First Table of the Jewish Law
Dale C. Allison, Jr. - The Allusive Jesus
Klyne R. Snodgrass - From Allegorizing to Allegorizing: A History of the Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus
Part 4 Jesus: Who Was He?
Introduction (Scot McKnight)
G. B. Caird - Jesus and the Jewish Nation
Richard A. Horsley - Abandoning the Unhistorical Quest for an Apolitical Jesus Marcus J. Borg - The Spirit-Filled Experience of Jesus
P. M. Casey - Son of Man
Peter Stuhlmacher - The Messianic Son of Man: Jesus’ Claim to Deity
Part 5 Jesus: Major Events
Introduction (Scot McKnight)
Gerd Theissen - The Historical Intention of Primitive Christian Miracle Stories
E. P. Sanders - Jesus and the Temple
C. E. B. Cranfield - The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Peter Stuhlmacher - Jesus’ Readiness to Suffer and His Understanding of His Death
Gerd Luedemann - The History and Nature of the Earliest Christian Belief in the Resurrection
Part 6 Jesus and Others
Introduction (Scot McKnight)
Ben F. Meyer - The Judgment and Salvation of Israel
P. W. Barnett - The Jewish Sign Prophets
James D. G. Dunn - Pharisees, Sinners, and Jesus
P. S. Alexander - Jesus and the Golden Rule
Amy-Jill Levine - The Word Becomes Flesh: Jesus, Gender, and Sexuality
Part 7 Conclusion
Conclusion (Scot McKnight)
Rudolf Bultmann - The Message of Jesus and the Problem of Mythology
G. N. Stanton - The Gospel Traditions and Early Christological Reflection
John A. T. Robinson - The Last Tabu? The Self-Consciousness of Jesus
Robert Morgan - The Historical Jesus and the Theology of the New Testament
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Sources