Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Recent Concerns
5. The Mediterranean Jesus: Context 4
6. Itinerants and Householders in the Earliest Jesus Movement 7
7. Q and a Cynic-Like Jesus 25
8. The Gospel of Thomasand the Cynic Jesus 37
9. The Galilean Jewish Jesus: Context 61
10. Galilean Questions to Crossan's Mediterranean Jesus 63
11. Socio-Rhetorical Interests: Context 92
12. Cosmology and the Jesus Miracles 118
13. The Theological Importance of the "Third Quest" for the Historical Jesus 132
14. Academic Engagement: Context 143
15. A Feminist Experience of Historical-Jesus Scholarship 146
16. The Historical Jesus and African New Testament Scholarship 161
17. Recent Concerns: The Scholar as Engage 181
18. Enduring Concerns
19. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Context 188
20. The Historical Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls 190
21. Apocalypticism: Context 212
22. Will the Reader Understand? Apocalypse as Veil or Vision in Recent Historical-Jesus Studies 215
23. The Christ of Faith: Context 238
24. Is the "Historical Jesus" a Christological Construct? 241
25. Continuing Historical-Jesus Studies: Context 269
26. Enduring Concerns: Desiderata for Future Historical-Jesus Research 296
27. Conclusion
28. Making and Re-Making the Jesus-Sign: Contemporary Markings on the Body of Christ 308
29. Contributors 320
30. Subject Index 322
31. Modern Authors Index 326
32. Ancient Sources Index 333
33. Series Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/ Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses 339