RelSt 435: Early Jesus Traditions
Books for which review reports are approved
R.A.Kraft October 1998


Arnal, William E. and Michel Desjardins (eds.)
  1997 Whose Historical Jesus?  Studies in Christianity and 
       Judaism / E/tudes sur le christianisme et le judaisme, 7. 
       Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 

Bammel, E. & Moule, C.F.D. 
  1984 Jesus and the Politics of his Day. Cambridge.

Bockmuehl, Markus
  1994 This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah. T & T Clark.

Borg, Marcus
  1987 Jesus: A New Vision.  San Francisco: Harper & Row.

  1994 Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus 
       & the Heart of Contemporary Faith. San Francisco: Harper & Row. 

Bornkamm, Gu%nther
  1960 Jesus of Nazareth. Hodder & Stoughton/Harper
  [Krista Baker]

Bowden, John
  1988 Jesus: The Unanswered Questions. SCM.

Brandon, S. G. F.
  1967 Jesus and the Zealots. Manchester University.
  [Yoni Werlin]

Brown, Raymond E.
  1994 The Death of the Messiah. Doubleday.
  [Justin O'Connell, 15 Oct]

Bultmann, Rudolf
  1934 Jesus and the Word. Scribner's

Crossan, J. Dominic
  1991 The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish 
       Peasant.  San Francisco: HarperCollins. 
  [James Balaguer]

Dahl, Nils
  1974 The Crucified Messiah and Other Essays.  Minneapolis: 
       Augsburg. 

de Jonge, Marinus
  1991 Jesus, the Servant Messiah. Yale University Press.
  [Matthew Klein]

Evans, Craig A.
  1992 Jesus. Baker.

Funk, Robert W and Roy W Hoover
  1993 The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of 
       Jesus.  New York: Macmillan. 
  [Johannes Hartopo, 15 Oct]

Harvey, Anthony E.
  1982 Jesus and the Constraints of History. Duckworth.
  [Joshua Ewing, 8 Oct]

Horsley, Richard A. and John S. Hanson
  1985 Bandits, Prophets and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the 
       Time of Jesus. Minneapolis: Winston Press. 
  [Sean-Michael Green & Alex Rodriguez, 22 Oct]

Jeremias, Joichim
  1971 The Proclamation of Jesus. SCM.

Ka%hler, Martin
  [1896] The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical 
         Christ. English translation 1964, Fortress.
  [Bernard Aubert, 5 Nov]

Kaylor, R. David
  1994 Jesus the Prophet: His Vision of the Kingdom on Earth. 
       Westminster/John Knox.

Mack, Burton
  1988 A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins.  
       Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 

Meier, John P
  1991 & 1994 A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 2 Vols.  
              New York: Doubleday. 
  [William Fowler, 15 Oct]

Meyer, Ben F.
  1979 The Aims of Jesus.  London: SCM.

  1989 Critical Realism and the New Testament.  Pittsburgh 
       Theological Monograph Series 17. Allison Park, PA: 
       Pickwick Publications. 

Pagels, Elaine H.
  1979 The Gnostic Gospels. NY: Random House.
  [Sarah Schwarz]

Powell, Evan
  1994 The Unfinished Gospel: Notes on the Quest for the 
       Historical Jesus. Symposium Books.

Robinson, James M.
  1959 A New Quest for the Historical Jesus. Allenson.

Sanders, E. P.
  1987 Jesus and Judaism.  Philadelphia: Fortress.

  1993 The Historical Figure of Jesus. Penguin.
  [Stephen Wind, 15 Oct]

Schu%ssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth
  1994 Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in 
       Feminist Christology. London: SCM. 

Schweitzer, Albert
  1906 The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its 
       Progress from Reimarus to Wrede. Macmillan revised ed, 1968. 

Stuhlmacher, Peter
  1993 Jesus of Nazareth -- Christ of Faith. Hendrickson.

Theissen, Gerd
  1987 The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical 
       Jesus in Narrative Form. Fortress.

Vermes, Geza
  1973, 1983\2 Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the 
               Gospel. Collins. 

  1993 The Religion of Jesus the Jew. Augsburg Fortress.
  [Sara Gault]

Webb, Robert L.
  1991 John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study.  
       Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplements, 62.  
       Sheffield: JSOT Press. 
  [Sean McCandless, 8 Oct]

Witherington, Ben
  1995 The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth.  
       Dowers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press. 

Wrede, William
  [1901] The Messianic Secret. English translation, Clarke 1971. 

Wright, N. T.
  1992 Who Was Jesus? SPCK/Eerdmans

  1996 Jesus and the Victory of God
  [Kira Mattison]

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Other Resources (not for review of reviews)

Bailey, Kenneth E. 

1991 "Informal Controlled Oral Tradition and the Synoptic 
Gospels." Asia Journal of Theology 5: 34-54. 

Caird, G. B.
1980 The Language and Imagery of the Bible.  London: Duckworth.

Caird, George B. and L. D. Hurst
1994 New Testament Theology.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eco, Umberto

1983 "Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of 
Abduction." In The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, edited 
by Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Siebeok.  Bloomington: Indiana 
University Press, pp.198-220. 

Meyer, Ben F.

1992 "Jesus Christ." Anchor Bible Dictionary 3:773-96.

Rowland, Christopher

1992 "Parousia." Anchor Bible Dictionary 5:166-70.

Wright, N. T.

1992a The New Testament and the People of God.  Minneapolis: 
Fortress. 

1992b "Quest for the Historical Jesus." Anchor Bible Dictionary 
3:796-802.