Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Historical Foundations
1. Vera et Sincera de Iesu
2. The German Roots of Historical Jesus Research
3. The “Lying Historians” and Luke 1–2
4. Memorializing Miracles in the World of the Gospels
5. Eyewitness Historiography and the Resurrection
Part II. Theological Perspectives
6. Spirit and Power
7. The Revenge of Alexandrian Exegesis: Toward an Ecclesial Hermeneutic
8. Interpretatio Iudaica
9. Primitive Christology as Ancient Philosophy
10. Two Loci of Greco-Roman Jewish Monotheism
Part III. Jesus and the Scriptures
11. Scientia Christi: Three Theses
12. Another Johannine Thunderbolt? The Legatio Baptistae and “The Poetic Christ”
13. “Why Do the Scribes Say?” Scribal Expectations of an Eschatological High Priest and the Interpretation of Jesus’ Transfiguration
14. Prosopological Exegesis and Christological Anagnorisis
15. Jesus’ Prophetic Knowledge and the Gospels
Appendix I: Anti-Hegelian Postlude on the Religion of the Future
Appendix II: Review of Paula Fredriksen, When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
Bibliography
Scriptural Index
Ancient Sources Index
Subject Index