The Jesus Handbook

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword by Dale C. Allison Jr.
Preface
Translator’s Preface
List of Abbreviations
A. Introduction
	I. About This Handbook
	II. The Earthly Jesus and the Christ of Confession: Contours of the Jesus Quest
	III. The Jesus Quest in the Age of Critical Historiography
	IV. The “Remembered Jesus”—on the Relevance of a Paradigm of Current Jesus Research
	V. Historical Material as a Foundation for the Reconstruction of the Deeds and Fate of Jesus
	VI. Early Impacts of Jesus
	VII. Literature for Basic Orientation
B. History of Historical-Critical Research on Jesus
	I. Introduction
	II. The Earthly Jesus in the Piety and Theology of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation
		1. Antiquity
		2. The Middle Ages/Humanism
		3. Reformation
	III. The Eighteenth Century as the Context for the Origin of Critical Theology
		1. Critical Philosophy
		2. Critical Philosophy of Religion
		3. Critical Theology
		4. Historical-Critical Exegesis
	IV. Critical Historiography of the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and Its Implications for Jesus Research
		1. Critical Historiography of the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Periodization and Characterization
		2. Effects on Jesus Research
	V. The Concept of Myth in Historical Jesus Research and the Rise of the Two-Document Hypothesis
		1. Strauss and the Concept of Myth
		2. Reactions against Strauss and the Development of Markan Priority
		3. Historical Jesus Studies, 1830–1870
		4. The Emergence of the Liberal Lives of Jesus
		5. The Nineteenth Century in Retrospect
	VI. The “Kingdom of God” as an Eschatological Concept: Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer
		1. Introduction
		2. Weiss’s and Schweitzer’s Kingdom
		3. Weiss’s and Schweitzer’s Interpretation
		4. Some Closing Thoughts
	VII. Historical Jesus and Kerygmatic Christ
		1. Preliminary Remarks
		2. Martin Kähler
		3. On Rudolf Bultmann’s Approach
		4. Luke Timothy Johnson
		5. Review and Prospects
	VIII. The Literary Designs of the Gospels and Their Relationship to the Historical Jesus
		1. William Wrede
		2. Form and Redaction Criticism
		3. Narrative Study of the Gospel
		4. Narrative, Memory, and History
		5. Conclusion
	IX. The Gospels as “Kerygmatic Narratives” of Jesus and the “Criteria” in Historical Jesus Research
		1. Ernst Käsemann
		2. Günther Bornkamm
		3. Ferdinand Hahn
		4. Summary
	X. The “Third Quest for the Historical Jesus”
		1. Introduction
		2. Developments
		3. Characteristic Features
		4. Controversies and Debates
	XI. The “Remembered Jesus”: Memory as a Historiographical-Hermeneutical Paradigm of Research on Jesus
C. The Historical Material
	I. Introduction
	II. Literary Evidence
		1. Christian Texts
		2. Non-Christian Texts
	III. Nonliterary Evidence
		1. Archaeological Evidence
		2. Inscriptions and Coins
D. The Life and Work of Jesus
	I. Introduction
	II. Political Conditions and Religious Context
		1. Political Conditions: Roman Imperial Rule, Herod the Great, Antipas
		2. Religious Context
	III. Biographical Aspects
		1. Jesus: Descent, Birth, Childhood, Family
		2. Jesus’s Education and Language
		3. Jesus in the Judaism of His Time (Jewish Influence on Jesus)
		4. Galilee and Environs as the Sphere of Activity
		5. Jerusalem and Judea as a Sphere of Activity
	IV. Public Ministry
		1. Jesus’s Social Context
		2. Jesus’s Activity
		3. Jesus’s Discourses/Jesus’s Teaching
		4. The Ethics of Jesus
		5. The Passion Events
E. Early Traces of the Wirkungen (Effects) and Reception of Jesus
	I. Introduction
	II. Resurrection, Appearances, Instructions of the Risen One
		1. Early Christian Talk about the God Who Raised Jesus from the Dead, and Its Traditio-Historical Background
		2. The Accounts of Appearances in the Gospels
		3. An Innovative Concept of Resurrection in Primitive Christianity: The Connection of One Individual Resurrection with the Dawning of the End Time and the Expectation of a General Resurrection of the Dead
		4. Further Developments in the Second and Third Centuries
		5. Conclusion
	III. Early Confessions of Faith
		1. Criteria
		2. Typologies
		3. Traditional Pistis Formulations
		4. Homological Predication Statements
		5. Other Traditional Formulations with a Kerygmatic or Soteriological Profile
		6. Further Christological Confessions
		7. Liturgical Forms
		8. Conclusion
	IV. Christological Titles
		1. Lord
		2. The Anointed One (Christ/Messiah)
		3. Son of God
		4. Son of Man
		5. Son of David
	V. The Formation of Structures: The Twelve, Wandering Charismatics, the Primitive Jerusalem Community, and Apostles
		1. The Twelve
		2. Wandering Charismatics/Wandering Radicals
		3. The Jerusalem Community
		4. Apostles
	VI. Jesus in Noncanonical Texts of the Second and Third Centuries
		1. “Jewish Christian” Gospels
		2. The Gospel of Peter
		3. God and the Question of Death
		4. The Gospel of Thomas
		5. Gospel of Mary and Gospel of Judas
		6. Protevangelium of James and Infancy Gospel of Thomas
		7. Conclusion
	VII. Visual Representations of Jesus up until ca. 500 CE
		1. Pictorial Motifs
		2. Typology of Depictions of Jesus
		3. Overview
		4. Pictorial Cycles/Sequences of Figures
		5. Developments
		6. Plates with Explanatory Notes
	VIII. Ethics (Sermon on the Mount)
		1. Ancient Ethical Tradition
		2. Early Christian Communal Ethics
		3. Challenges for Christian Ethics in the Second Century
		4. Outlook: The Ethic of the Sermon on the Mount in Alexandrian Theology and Monastic Ethics
Bibliography
List of Contributors