Introduction -- Ch. 1. The three quests for the historical Jesus -- ch. 2. Back to basics: religion -- ch. 3. Moving forward: religious groups -- ch. 4. Refinding the symbolic forms of Ancient Judaism -- ch. 5. A Jewish paradigm in transition -- ch. 6. The Jesus tradition -- ch. 7. Many groups, one tradition -- Conclusion
Summary
This book suggests that the identification of Jesus will remain forever conjectural and more importantly his identity for the true believer is not important. A powerful religious thesis