Includes bibliographical references and index

The problem -- Hermann Samuel Remarus -- The lives of Jesus of the earlier rationalism -- The earliest fictitious lives of Jesus -- Fully developed rationalism -- The last phase of rationalism -- David Friedrich Strauss -the man and His fate -- Strauss’s opponents and supporters -- The marcan hypothesis -- Bruno Bauer -- Further imaginative lives of Jesus -- The eschatological question -- The struggle against eschatology -- Questions regarding the Aramaic language, rabbinic parallels, and Buddhistic influence -- The position of the subject at the close of the nineteenth century -- Thoroughgoind scepticism and thoroughgoing eschatology