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"This volume offers critical assessments of ""Life of Jesus"" research in the last generation, with special emphasis on recent work. It introduces graduate students to the field and provides veteran scholars with current bibligraphy and discussion of the issues. Topics covered include Jesus and Palestinian politics, Jesus tradition in ""Paul"", Jesus in the extracanonical Gospels, and Jesus' parables, miracles, death and resurrection. Contributors include Marcus J. Borg, James H. Charlesworth, James D.G. Dunn, Sean Freyne, Richard Horsley and Helmut Koester."

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' This volume is the most comprehensive and current discussion of Jesus research in any language, and no NT scholar should be without access to it.'<br>Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review, 1995.<br>' This is an exceptionally good book...an excellent resource for teaching and research.'<br>Steve Moyise An Anglican Evangelical Journal for Theology and Mission, 1995.<br>'.. .it is a most useful book which will hopefully find its way, [...], into the libraries that should have it.'<br>Clive Marsh Theology, 1996.<br>' The contributors and editors together provide the advanced student and scholar with an exhaustive compendium of scholarly research.'<br>H.Alan Brehm, Southwestern Journal of Theology, 1996.<br>

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Bruce Chilton, Ph.D. (1976) in Divinity, Cambridge University (St. John's College) is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College. He is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism; his publications include The Isaiah Targum (Clark and Glazier, 1987) and The Temple of Jesus (Penn. State, 1992). Craig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983) in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. He has published extensively on Jesus and the Gospels, including Life of Jesus Research: An Annotated Bibliography (Brill, 1989).

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