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Notes to Section I

1 Schweitzer, Quest, 398.

2 Crossan, Historical Jesus, xxviii.

3 For some 15,000 sources, see Mills, Christ and Gospels.

4 Briefly, see e.g., Gnilka, Jesus of Nazareth, 1-12; Wright, Who Was Jesus? 1-18; Bockmuehl, Jesus, 2-8; Herzog, Jesus, 4-33; McClymond, Stranger, 7-25; Pikaza, “Jesús histórico”; Moyise, “Jesus and gospels”; Gisel, “Jésus historique”; Marsh, “Quests”; Boccaccini, “Gesù” (for the history in Italy); more extensively, e.g., Wright, Quest; Thompson, Debate. For articles treating several works, Webb, “Books”; Bond, “Portraits”; Clark, “Search” (on three works); Radermakers, “Goût”; surveying some books summarizing the debate, Goodacre, “Quest.” For summaries of the first quest, see Theissen and Merz, Historical Jesus, 2-5; Levine, “Introduction,” 5-6; more extensively, Schweitzer, Quest; Dawes, Quest; Paget, “Quests,” 138-45; for Victorian “lives,” Pals, Lives; for the first half of the twentieth century, Weaver, Historical Jesus; the second quest, Anderson, Jesus and Origins, 149-84; for the first and second quests, Thompson, Debate, 90-111. For the third quest, see Borg, Jesus in Scholarship, 18-43; Telford, “Trends”; Witherington, Quest; Kealy, “Quest”; Powell, Jesus in History; Freyne, “Search”; Evans, “Quest”; Herzog, Jesus, 18-33; Bird, “Quest”; briefly, Paget, “Quests,” 147-48; Theissen and Merz, Historical Jesus, 10-11. (I am employing the common language of three quests as a designation of convenience, but it is not strictly accurate; see Weaver, “Introduction,” 2; Paget, “Quests,” 146.) Although often not considered in the discussions, Heyer, Jesus Matters, 73-93, helpfully notes Jewish works about Jesus.

5 Crossan, Historical Jesus, xxvii-xxviii, puts the matter quite well (cf. similarly Meier, Marginal Jew, 1:3), but then proposes a methodology to circumvent the impasse (pp. xxviii-xxix) that in my opinion fails for lack of adequate attention to the Jewish and, despite his claim, Greco-Roman context.

6 Since Schweitzer, Quest, scholars have periodically remarked on how frequently presuppositions shape one’s conclusions in Jesus research (e.g., Stanton, Gospel Truth, 145).

7 As scholars sometimes observe (e.g., Neufeld, Recovering Jesus, 16-18, esp. 18; cf. the integration of major elements in Pikaza, “Jesús histórico”).

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