I. Disparate views about Jesus: The development of Jesus scholarship ; Jesus the cynic sage? ; Jesus and Judaism ; Other gospels?
II. The character of the Gospels: ; The gospels as biographies ; Luke-Acts as history ; Ancient historiography as history ; Ancient historiography as rhetoric ; The gospels' written sources ; The gospels' oral sources
III. What we learn about Jesus from the best sources: John the Baptist ; Jesus the Galilean Jew ; Jesus the teacher ; Kingdom discipleship ; Jesus' Jewish ethics ; Conflicts with other teachers ; Jesus the prophet ; Jesus as Messiah? ; More than an earthly Messiah ; Confronting and provoking the elite ; Jesus' arrest and execution ; The resurrection
Appendix 1. Zealots and revolutionaries
Appendix 2. Mack's case for a Wisdom Q
Appendix 3. Jewish biographical conventions
Appendix 4. Jesus' sayings about the end
Appendix 5. John and the Synoptics on Passover chronology
Appendix 6. Roman participation in Jesus' arrest?
Appendix 7. Capital authority
Appendix 8. What really happened at the tomb?
Appendix 9. Some postresurrection teachings
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The historical Jesus of the Gospels by Craig S. Keener. ISBN 9780802862921. Published by William B. Eerdmans in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
