David B. Gowler,
What Are They Saying About the Historical Jesus? (New York:
Paulist Press, 2007). A good place to start. Gowler has
chapters on the early quest (from Reimarus to Schweitzer), the Jesus
Seminar (Robert Funk, Markus Borg, John Dominic Crossan), and the
new mainstream (E.P. Sanders, John Meier).
Dale C. Allison, Jr., “The Problem of
the Historical Jesus,” in The Blackwell Companion to the New
Testament, ed. David Aune (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010),
220-235.
Richard Bauckham, Jesus: A Very
Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
James Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy,
eds., The Historical Jesus: Five Views (Downers Grove, IL:
Intervarsity Press, 2009).
Helen Bond,
Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed, Guides for the
Perplexed (New York: T&T Clark International, 2012) paperback, $25.
NEW.
Marcus Brockmuhl, ed., The
Cambridge Companion to Jesus (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2002).
Delbert Burkett,
ed., The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, series: Blackwell
Companions to Religion (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
James H. Charlesworth, The
Historical Jesus: The Essential Guide (Nashville: Abingdon,
2008).
Craig A. Evans, Life of Jesus
Research: An Annotated Bibliography, rev. ed. New Testament
Tools and Studies 24 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996).
Craig A. Evans, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Historical Jesus (New York / London: Routledge, 2008).
David B. Gowler, “The Quest for the
Historical Jesus: An Overview,” in The Blackwell Companion to
Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011),
301-318.
Tom Holmén and
Stanley E. Porter, Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus,
4 vol. (Leiden: Brill Academic, 2011). A massive,
comprehensive study.
Gerald O’Collins, Christology: A
Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Christ, 2nd ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Ben Witherington III, The Jesus
Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, 2nd
ed. (Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1997).
Albert Schweitzer, The Quest
for the Historical Jesus, ed. John Bowden (Fortress Press,
2001). This book, published originally in German
in 1906, is a work of genius, brilliantly charting the 18th and
19th-century quest, showing how each of the early questers
created a Jesus in his own image—one quite removed from the
Jesus of history. This is the first complete edition in
English. A reprint of a translation from the 1920s is also
available from Johns Hopkins Press (1998).
Leander E. Keck, ed., Lives of
Jesus Series (Philadelphia: Fortress Press). In the early
1970s, Keck oversaw the editing and translating of the great
18th- & 19th-century lives of Jesus done during the first
quest, the one so sharply criticized by Schweitzer. The volumes
in the series are:
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Hermann Samuel Remairus, Fragments, ed. Charles A. Talbert, trans. Ralph S.
Fraser (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970).
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Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Life of Jesus, ed. Jack C. Verheyden (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1975).
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David Friedrich Strauss, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, ed. Peter C.
Hodgson, trans. George Eliot (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,
1972).
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David Friedrich Strauss, The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History: A Critique of
Schleiermacher’s The Life of Jesus, trans. Leander E.
Keck (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977).
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Alfred Loisy, The Gospel
and the Church, trans. Bernard B. Scott (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1976).
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Johannes Weiss, Jesus’
Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, trans. Richard H.
Hiers & David L. Holland (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,
1971)
Gunther
Bornkamm, Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Harper, 1960). A
classic presentation from the 2nd (post-Bultmannian)
quest for the historical Jesus.
Colin Brown, Jesus in
European Protestant Thought, 1778-1860 (Durham, NC: Labyrinth,
1985).
Gregory W.
Dawes, ed., The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the
Search for the Jesus of History (Nashville: Westminster John
Knox, 1999). An excellent anthology of sources
from the first two quests (from Reimarus to Käsemann).
Gregory W. Dawes, ed., The
Historical Jesus Question: The Challenge of History to Religious
Authority (Nashville: Westminister John Knox, 2001).
C.H. Dodd, The Founder of Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1970).
Joachim
Jeremias, New Testament Theology I: The Proclamation of Jesus
(London: SCM Press, 1971).
Joachim
Jeremias, Jesus and the Message of the New Testament,
Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies, ed. K.C. Hanson
(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002).
Martin Kähler,
The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical
Christ, trans. Carl E. Braaten (Philadelphia: Fortress
Press, 1964).
Ernst
Käsemann, “The Problem of the Historical Jesus,” in Essays on
New Testament Themes, trans. W.J. Montague, Studies in
Biblical Theology 41 (London: SCM, 1964)
From the mid-90s to mid-2000s, the
Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk and John Dominic, attracted
headlines for their radical and often outrageous interpretations of
the historical Jesus. The Seminar used a unique voting method
to try and arrive at a consensus of what in the Gospels goes back to
the historical Jesus. Funk published their results in a pair
of work, The Five Gospels and The Acts of Jesus (see
below). Their flamboyant style, radical conclusions, and flair
for self-promotion drew strong and able critics. The mass of
literature on this helped fuel new interest in the scholarly study
of the historical Jesus--in part, to refute their work. On the
positive side, they helped bring this complex theological quest into
the popular forum.
John Dominic Crossan, The
Historical Jesus: the Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). Crossan is
flamboyant, outspoken, and co-founder of the Jesus Seminar.
One
reviewer has noted that Crossan “seems incapable … of
thinking a boring thought or writing a dull paragraph”; this
book “is a book to treasure for its learning, its thoroughness,
its brilliant handling of multiple and complex issues, its
amazing inventiveness, and above all its sheer readability … It
is all the more frustrating, therefore, to have to conclude
that the book is almost entirely wrong.” Crossan thinks of
Jesus as a social revolutionary. He treats apocryphal gospels
like the Gospel of Thomas or the Gospel of Peter
on par with the 4 canonical gospels. His most radical
interpretations come out most clearly in his later books (see
below). In Jesus: A Radical Biography (San Francisco:
HarperCollins, 1994), he argues that Jesus’
body was never buried, but was eaten by dogs and birds and
dumped by the Romans in a trash heap.
Marcus J. Borg & N.T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Harper SanFrancisco,
1999). Marcus Borg, like John Dominic Crossan,
is one of the leaders of the Jesus Seminar and, while he claims
to be a Christian, his Jesus is far removed from the Jesus of
the mainline Christian churches. This book brilliantly
illustrates the clash of interpretation between the (extremist)
views of the Jesus Seminar and mainstream scholarship. Borg and
Wright, while at opposite sides of the debate, are good friends
and co-wrote this book, alternating chapters, with each putting
forward his view on teaching of Jesus, on the death of Jesus, on
the resurrection, etc. It is well written and accessible to
beginning students—so much so that I have used it as a
textbook for classes on the historical Jesus.
The Jesus Seminar: Major Works:
Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: a New
Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship (San
Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1991).
Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again
for the First Time: the Historical Jesus and the Heart of
Contemporary Faith (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994).
Marcus J. Borg, Jesus in
Contemporary Scholarship (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press
International, 1994).
Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: Uncovering
the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
(New York: Harper Collins, 2006).
Edward Buetner, ed., Listening to
the Parables of Jesus, Jesus Seminar Guides, vol. 2 (Polebridge,
2007).
John Dominic Crossan, The Cross
That Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narratives (San
Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988).
John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A
Radical Biography (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994)
John Dominic Crossan, Who Killed
Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of
the Death of Jesus (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996).
John Dominic Crossan, The Birth of
Christianity (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998).
John Dominic Crossan, Excavating
Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts (San Francisco:
Harper San Francisco, 2001).
Robert W. Funk, ed., The Five
Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic
Words of Jesus (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco / Harper
One, 1997)
Robert W. Funk, ed., The Acts of
Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do? The Search for the Authentic Deeds
of Jesus (Polebridge Press, 1998).
Robert W. Funk, ed., The Gospel of
Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar (Polebridge Press, 1999).
Roy J. Hoover, The Historical Jesus
Goes to Church (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge, 2004).
Burton Mack, The Lost Gospel: The
Book of Q and Christian Origins (Shaftesbury: Element, 1993).
Robert J. Miller, ed., The
Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge, 2001).
Robert J. Miller, The Jesus Seminar
and Its Critics (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge, 1999).
Robert J. Miller, “The ‘Jesus’ of the
Jesus Seminar,” in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed.
Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 319-336.
Bernard Brandon Scott, ed., Jesus
Reconsidered: Scholarship in the Public Eye, Jesus Seminar
Guides, vol. 1 (Polebridge, 2007).
Bernard Brandon Scott, ed., Finding
the Historical Jesus: Rules of Evidence, Jesus Seminar Guides,
vol. 3 (Polebridge, 2008).
Bernard Brandon Scott, ed., The
Resurrection of Jesus: A Sourcebook, Jesus Seminar Guides, vol.
4 (Polebridge, 2009).
The Critics:
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Real
Jesus: the Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the
Truth of the Traditional Gospels (San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995). Through the 1990s, the
Jesus Seminar (John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, & Burton Mack)
made headlines in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. New
& World Report with their extravagant claims about the
historical Jesus. Johnson brilliantly demolishes their claims,
and sets out an excellent mainstream response.
Craig A. Evans, “Assessing Progress in
the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus,” Journal for the Study
of the New Testament 4 (2006): 35-54.
Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels: How
the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001).
Luke Timothy Johnson, “The Jesus
Seminar’s Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus,” Christian
Century (Jan. 3-10): 16-22.
N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory
of God, Vol. 2 of Christian Origins and the Question of God
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997).
N.T. Wright, “Five Gospels but not
Gospel: Jesus and the Seminar,” in Authenticating the Activities
of Jesus, ed. Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans, eds (Leiden:
Brill, 1999).
John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew:
Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Anchor Yale Bible Reference
Library (New Haven: Yale University Press / New York: Doubleday,
1991-2009). This
is the most thorough and well-balanced study of historical Jesus
in decades. It is an extraordinary achievement—and massive
(volume 2 alone is nearly 1000 pages). Meier writes with great
clarity, and relegates technical issues to the (very lengthy)
endnotes. Basically for more advanced students. At least one more volume is forthcoming.
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Vol. 1: The Roots of
the Problem and the Person (1991)
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Vol. 2: Mentor,
Message, Miracles (1994).
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Vol. 3: Companions and
Competitors (2001).
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Vol. 4: Law and Love
(2009).
N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, Vol. 2 of Christian
Origins and the Question of God (Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1997). Like Johnson, Wright offers a
shrewdly argued (and often humorous) challenge to the Jesus
Seminar. But his deeper concern is to offer a plausible
interpretation of Jesus which takes seriously his Galilean
context and his character as a 1st-century Jew—in all
its complexity and variegated textures. Wright understands
Jesus as an eschatological prophet whose message and ministry
offered a radical retelling of Israel’s story in light of the
coming Kingdom. Wright does not share the fashionable
skepticism about the accuracy of Gospel accounts. He has been labelled a “traditionalist”—but this is the freshest and most
original traditionalism to appear in many a year, and
traditionalists, I would guess, will find this portrait deeply
offensive.
Dale C. Allison,
Jr., The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009).
Helen K. Bond, “The Quest for the
Historical Jesus: An Appraisal,” in The Blackwell Companion to
Jesus, ed., Delbert Burkett, Blackwell Companions to Religion
(Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 337-353.
Dale C. Allison, Jr., Jesus of
Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1998).
Dale C. Allison, Jr., The
Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 2009).
Dale C. Allison, Jr., Constructing
Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2010).
Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the
Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2006).
Darrell L. Bock
and Robert L. Webb, eds., Key Events in the Life of the
Historical Jesus: A Collaborative Exploration of Context and
Coherence (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).
Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould,
Jesus Now and Then (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).
James H. Charlesworth, Jesus Within
Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archeological Discoveries,
Anchor Bible Reference (New York: Doubleday, 1988).
James H. Charlesworth, ed., Jesus’
Jewishness: Exploring the Place of Jesus within Early Judaism
(New York: Crossroad, 1991).
James H. Charlesworth, Jesus and
the Dead Sea Scrolls, Anchor Bible Reference (New York:
Doubleday, 1992).
James H. Charlesworth, ed., Jesus
and Archeology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).
James H. Charlesworth and Petr Pokony,
eds. (2009), Jesus Research: An International Perspective,
Princeton-Prague Symposia series on the Historical Jesus (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009).
Bruce Chilton, Rabbi Jesus: An
Intimate Biography (New York: Image Books, 2000).
J.D.G. Dunn & S. McKnight, eds.,
The Historical Jesus in Recent Research, Sources for Biblical
and Theological Study 10 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005).
Craig A. Evans, Jesus and His
Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (Leiden: Brill Academic,
2001).
C. Stephen Evans, The Historical
Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as
History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Paula Fredriksen, Jesus of
Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of
Christianity (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).
Sean Freyne, Jesus, A Jewish
Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story (New York: T&T Clark,
2004).
Tobias Hägerland,
Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic
Mission (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) hardcover,
$99. NEW.
Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and the
Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).
Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and
Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002).
Richard A. Horsley, Jesus in
Context: Power, People, and Performance (Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 2008).
Colin J.
Humphreys,
The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of
Jesus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Larry W. Hurtado and Paul L. Owen, eds., ‘Who Is This Son of
Man?’: The Latest Scholarship on a Puzzling Expression of the
Historical Jesus, series: The Library of New Testament Studies
(New York: T&T Clark, 2011).
Leander Keck, Who Is Jesus? History
in Perfect Tense, Studies on Personalities of the New Testament
(University of South Carolina Press, 2000).
Howard Clark Kee, What Can We Know
About Jesus, Understanding Jesus Today (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995).
Craig S. Keener, The Historical
Jesus of the Gospels (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman, 2009).
Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison &
John Dominic Crossan, eds., The Historical Jesus in Context,
Princeton Readings in Religions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 2006).
Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood
Jew: The Church and the Scandal of a Jewish Jesus (San
Francisco: HarperOne, 2006).
Bruce J. Malina, The Social Gospel
of Jesus: The Kingdom of God in Mediterranean Perspective
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000).
Douglas E. Neel
and Joel A. Pugh, The Food and Feasts of Jesus: Inside the World
of First Century Fare, with Menus and Recipes (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2012) paperback, $40. NEW.
Douglas E. Oakman,
The Political Aims of Jesus (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012)
paperback, $26. NEW.
Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays,
eds., Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue
with N. T. Wright (IVP Academic, 2011).
Mark Allan Powell, Jesus as a
Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee
(Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998).
E.P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian
Judaism: A Comparison of Patters of Religion (London: SCM,
1977).
E.P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism
(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
E.P. Sanders, The Historical Figure
of Jesus (New York: Penguin Books, 1993).
Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, The
Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (Minneapolis: Augsburg
Fortress, 1998).
Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter,
The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria
(Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).
Graham H. Twelftree, Jesus the
Exorcist: A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Jesus
(Peabody, MA: Hendrikson, 1993).
Robert E. Van Voorst, Jesus Outside
the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence
(Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000).
Geza Vermes, Jesus the Jew: a
Historian’s Reading of the Gospels (Philadelphia: Fortress
Press, 1981).
Geza Vermes, The Religion of Jesus
the Jew (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).
Geza Vermes, The Changing Face of
Jesus (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).
Ben Witherington III, Jesus the
Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
2000).
N.T. Wright, The Climax of the
Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1993).
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of
Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (Downers’ Grove, IL:
Intervarsity Press, 1999).
N.T. Wright, The Contemporary Quest
for Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002).
N.T. Wright, Simply Jesus: A New
Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why It Matters (San
Francisco: Harper One, 2011).
N.T. Wright, How God Became King:
The Forgotten Story of the Gospels (San Francisco: Harper One,
2012). NEW.
N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, Vol. 3 of Christian Origins and the Question of God (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2003). Another 700+-page tome
from Wright. This award-winning book, as the title indicates,
focuses not on the pre-Easter Jesus (and thus not the
“historical Jesus”), but on the post-Easter Risen Lord. Given
the huge mass of recent literature on the “historical Jesus,”
this in-depth study of the Gospels’ resurrection narratives is
refreshing.
Ben Witherington III, The Many
Faces of the Christ: The Christologies of the New Testament and
Beyond, Companions to the New Testament (New York: Crossroad
/ Herder & Herder, 1998). The
subtitle says it all.
Richard
Bauckham,
Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and
Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity,
(Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2008).
William H. Bellinger &
William R. Farmer, ed., Jesus and the Suffering Servant:
Isaiah 53 and Christian Origins (Philadelphia: Trinity Press
International, 1998).
Michael F. Bird
and Preston M. Sprinkle, eds., Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical,
Biblical, and Theological Studies (Peabody MA: Hendrickson,
2010).
Christopher Bryan,
The Resurrection of the Messiah (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2011).
Adela Yabro Collins and John J.
Collins, King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and
Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
Oscar Cullman, The Christology
of the New Testament, rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Westminster
John Knox, 1963).
James D.G. Dunn, Christology in
the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the
Doctrine of the Incarnation, 2nd ed. (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996).
James D. G. Dunn,
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament
Evidence (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2010).
James D.G.
Dunn,
Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2011).
Joseph A. Fitzmyer,
The One Who Is To Come (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).
Paula Fredriksen, From Jesus to
Christ: The Origin of the New Testament Images of Jesus,
rev. ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000; original edition,
1988).
Victor Paul Furnish, Jesus
According to Paul, Understanding Jesus Today (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Susan Garrett, No Ordinary Angel:
Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus, Anchor Yale
Bible Reference Library (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Simon J. Gathercole, The
Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and
Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006).
Suzanne Watts Henderson,
Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, Society for
New Testament Studies Monograph Series (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006).
Howard Clark Kee, Jesus in
History: an Approach to the Study of the Gospels, rev. ed.
(Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1996).
Jack Dean Kingsbury, Jesus
Christ in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, rev. ed. (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2002).
Jack Dean Kingsbury & David R.
Bauer, eds., Who Do You Say That I Am? Essays on Christology
(Westminister John Knox, 1999).
Abraham J. Malherbe & Wayne A.
Meeks, ed., The Future of Christology: Essays in Honor of
Leander E. Keck (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).
Sean M. McDonough,
Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
James F. McGrath, John’s
Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and Development in
Johannine Christology, Society for New Testament Studies
Monograph Series 111 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
John P. Meier, The Mission of
Christ and His Church: Essays on Christology and Ecclesiology
(Wilmington, DL: Michael Glazier, 1990).
Matthew V.
Novenson, Christ Among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and
Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2012) hardcover, $75. NEW.
Nicholas Perrin,
Jesus the Temple
(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).
Mark Allan Powell & David R.
Bauer, ed., Who Do You Say That I Am? Essays in Honor of
Jack Dean Kingsbury (Westminster John Knox, 1999).
Harold Remus, Jesus as Healer, Understanding Jesus Today
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Vernon K. Robbins, Jesus the
Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992).
Peter Schafer,
Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2007).
Peter Schäfer,
The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) paperback, $35. NEW.
Rudolph Schnackenburg, Jesus in
the Gospels: a Biblical Christology, trans. O.C. Dean, Jr.
(Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995).
Graham N. Stanton, The Gospels
and Jesus, Oxford Bible Series, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002).
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