The historical Jesus of the Gospels /
Craig S. Keener.
- xxxviii, 831 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
I. Disparate Views about Jesus : -- 1. The development of Jesus scholarship -- 2. Jesus the cynic sage? -- 3. Jesus and Judaism -- 4. Other gospels? -- II. The Character of the Gospels : -- 5. The gospels as biographies -- 6. Luke-Acts as history -- 7. Ancient historiography as history -- 8. Ancient historiography as rhetoric -- 9. The gospels' written sources -- 10. The gospels' oral sources -- III. What We Learn about Jesus from the Best Sources : -- 11. John the Baptist -- 12. Jesus the Galilean Jew -- 13. Jesus the teacher -- 14. Kingdom discipleship -- 15. Jesus' Jewish ethics -- 16. Conflicts with other teachers -- 17. Jesus the prophet -- 18. Jesus as Messiah? -- 19. More than an earthly Messiah -- 20. Confronting and provoking the elite -- 21. Jesus' arrest and execution -- 22. The resurrection -- Apendix 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