Table of Contents

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

Reviews

"The hard work, insight, and creativity of the two editors of this important volume on the historical Jesus must be applauded right here at the start. James Dunn and Scott McKnight are two seasoned New Testament scholars who are well versed in the debate on the so-called historical Jesus. In this tour de force they worked through an endless volume of literature on this subject, from the start of the debate in the late 1700s until the present, to produce an introduction to the "quest of the historical Jesus" as well as to get to the heart of what this "quest" is all about." -- Stephan Joubert, Pretoria, South Africa in Review of Biblical Literature, July 2006.