Contents:
Abbreviations
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Contributors
Introduction: The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium: Jesus Research and Methodologies / James H. Charlesworth
Part 1: Contexts
Section 1: Methodologies in Jesus Research
- Reflections on Improving Methodology in Jesus Research / Geza Vermes
- In Quest of the Quest: Finding Jesus / Walter P. Weaver
- Jesus, an Emerging Jewish Mosaic / Daniel F. Moore
- How Do We Know What We Think We Know? Methodological Reflections on Jesus Research / Stanley E. Porter
Section 2: Archaeology and Topography: Perceiving Jesus in His World
- Reconstructing First-Century Galilee: Reflections on Ten Major Problems / James H. Charlesworth and Mordecai Aviam
- Reimagining Jesus in His Culture: Reflections on Some Recent Scholarly Byways / Sean Freyne
- Topography, Biblical Traditions, and Reflections on John's Baptism of Jesus / Jeremy M. Hutton
- Urban Architecture in the Eastern Roman Provinces and the Image of Empire / Gabriel Mazor
- Jesus and Numismatics: The Importance of Coins in Reconstructing Jesus and His World / David Hendin
Section 3: Jesus within Judaism
- Jesus in Continuum from Early Judaism to Early Christianity: Practical-Methodological Reflections on a Missed Perspective / Tom Holmen
- Jesus and Apocalyptic Eschatology / Dale C. Allison Jr.
- From the Historical Jesus to the Kerygmatic Son of God: How Role Analysis Contributes to the Understanding of New Testament Christology / Gerd Theissen
- The Qumran Scrolls and the Historical Jesus / Peter W. Flint
- Jesus and the Jewish Festivals: Methodological Reflections / Michael Allen Daise
- Aramaic, Jesus, and the Targumim / Bruce Chilton
- Jesus and the Politics of Palestine under Roman Rule / Richard A. Horsley
- Why Did Paul Succeed Where the Rabbis Failed? The Reluctance of the Rabbis to Translate Their Teachings into Greek and Latin and the Split Jewish Diaspora / Arye Edrei and Doron Mendels
Section 4: Psychobiography: Jesus within His Contexts
- Beyond Schweitzer and the Psychiatrists: Jesus as Fictive Personality / Donald Capps
- Should Specialists in Jesus Research Include Psychobiography? / James H. Charlesworth
Part 2: The Transmission of Jesus Traditions
Transmitting Traditions / James H. Charlesworth
Section 5: Sources
- Gospel Traditions: Anonymous Community Traditions or Eyewitness Testimony? / Richard Bauckham
- Rethinking the Oral-Scribal Transmission/Performance of the Jesus Tradition / Werner H. Kelber
- At the Table: Common Ground between Paul and the Historical Jesus / Kathy Ehrensperger
- The Gospel of Mark and the Historical Jesus / Darrell L. Bock
- Matthew's Interpretive "Tendencies" and the "Historical" Jesus / Ulrich Luz
- Luke-Acts and the Historical Jesus / Craig Keener
- Redaction Criticism, Genre, Narrative Criticism, and the Historical Jesus in the Gospel of John / D. Moody Smith
- Jesus and the Extracanonical Works / Craig A. Evans
- Apocryphal Gospels and the Historical Jesus / Pheme Perkins
- Josephus, Tacitus, and Suetonius: Seeing Jesus through the Eyes of Classical Historians / Casey D. Elledge
- The Emphasis on Jesus' Humanity in the Earliest Kerygma / Etienne Nodet
- Jesus in the Qur'an and Other Early Islamic Texts / Suleiman A. Mourad
Section 6: Jesus' Life and Teaching
- Methodological Reflections on John the Baptizer's Influence on Jesus / Robert L. Webb
- Jesus' Use and Interpretation of Scripture: What Was "Scripture" to Jesus and How Did Such Texts Influence Him? / Gerbern S. Oegema
- The Scriptures of Jesus: Did He Have a Biblical Canon? / Lee Martin McDonald
- The Jesus of History and Divine Adaptability in Saint John Chrysostom's Interpretation of John 4 / George L. Parsenios
- Jesus as Miracle Worker: Historiography and Credibility / Jan Roskovec
- Jesus' Death on the Cross: Literary, Theological, and Historical Comments / Petr Pokorny
- Jesus' Resurrection and Historiography / Lidija Novakovic

Includes bibliographical references and index.