Introduction: The Case for the Legendary Jesus
Part 1: Historical Method and the Jesus Tradition: Miracles,
Parallels, and First-Century Palestine
1. Miracles and Method: The Historical-Critical Method and the
Supernatural
2. A Jewish Legend of "Yahweh Embodied"? How "Pagan" Was
First-Century Judaism?
3. One Among Many Legends? Do "Parallels" Relativize the Jesus of
History?
Part 2: Other Witnesses: Ancient Historians and the Apostle
Paul
4. A Conspiracy of Silence? What Ancient Non-Christian Sources Say,
and Do Not Say, About Jesus
5. The "Silence" of Paul? What, if Anything, Did Paul Know about
the Jesus of History?
Part 3: Between Jesus and the Gospels: The Early Oral Jesus
Tradition
6. Ancient Literacy and Oral Tradition: Assessing the Early Oral
Jesus Tradition
7. Historical Remembrance or Prophetic Imagination? Memory,
History, and Eyewitness Testimony in the Early Oral Jesus
Tradition
Part 4: The Synoptic Gospels as Historical Sources for Jesus:
Assessing the Evidence
8. The Genre and Nature of the Canonical Gospels: Did the Gospel
Authors Intend to Write Historically Reliable Accounts?
9. Evaluating the Synoptic Gospels as Historical Sources:
Methodological Issues and Preliminary Considerations
10. The Synoptic Tradition and the Jesus of History: A Cumulative
Case for the Reliability of the Synoptic Portrait(s) of Jesus
Author Index
Subject Index
Paul Rhodes Eddy (PhD, Marquette University) is professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Gregory A. Boyd (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Eddy and Boyd are authors or coauthors of several books, including Across the Spectrum.
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