Beilby and Eddy do a good job of bringing order to the chaos.
The result is an ideological agora at times having more points of contact with a flea market than with an intellectually serious academic exchange. In addition, some Jesus-understandings combine one or more categories.
It then moves to the current state of play-“play” too often being an apt word to describe an academic enterprise that has cast Jesus in some eighteen different identities, from “an eschatological prophet” to “an Essene conspirator” to “a paradoxical Messianic claimant,” to name just a few (p. This covers the history of the quest starting with Reimarus and his precursors. They kick off the discussion with a substantial essay, “The Quest for the Historical Jesus: An Introduction” (pp. Both of the editors of this book are professors at Bethel University in St.
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