The Jesus handbook

A. Introduction :

About this handbook

The earthly Jesus and the Christ of confession: contours of the Jesus quest

The Jesus quest in the age of critical historiography

The "remembered Jesus": on the relevance of a paradigm of current Jesus research

Historical material as a foundation for the reconstruction of the deeds and fate of Jesus

Early impacts of Jesus

Literature for basic orientation

B. History of historical-critical research on Jesus :

Introduction

The earthly Jesus in the piety and theology of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation

The eighteenth century as the context for the origin of critical theology

Critical historiography of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its implications for Jesus research

The concept of myth in historical Jesus research and the rise of the two-document hypothesis

The "kingdom of God" as an eschatological concept: Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer

Historical Jesus and kerygmatic Christ

The literary designs of the Gospels and their relationship to the historical Jesus

The Gospels as "kerygmatic narratives" of Jesus and the "criteria" in historical Jesus research

The "third quest for the historical Jesus"

The "remembered Jesus": memory as a historiographical-hermeneutical paradigm of research on Jesus

C. The historical material :

Introduction

Literary evidence

Nonliterary evidence

D. The life and work of Jesus :

Introduction

Political conditions and religious context

Biographical aspects

Public ministry

E. Early traces of the Wirkungen (effects) and reception of Jesus. Introduction

Resurrection, appearances, instructions of the Risen One

Early confessions of faith

Christological titles

The formation of structures: the Twelve, wandering charismatics, the primitive Jerusalem community, and apostles

Jesus in noncanonical texts of the second and third centuries

Visual representations of Jesus up until ca. 500 CE

Ethics (Sermon on the Mount).