The Quest for the Plausible Jesus The Question of Criteria

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Quest for Criteria in Jesus Research : The Essential Problem of the Criterion of Dissimilarity .............1 Phases of Jesus research and the Criterion on Dissimilarity ............1 Fundamental Problems in the Quest for Criteria ............8 The Criterion of Dissimilarity within the Framework of the Criteria for Jesus Research ...............10 Introduction to the Problematic of the Criteria of Dissimilarity ..........19 on the Way to a More Comprehensive methodology .............24 2. The Criterion of Dissimilarity in the History of Jesus Research : Aspects of the Quest for Criteria .......27 The Prehistory of the Criterion of Dissimilarity .......27 The History of the Criterion of Dissimilarity in its Systematic Relationship to the Understanding of Jesus ............76 3. The Criterion of Historical Plausibility as a Correction of the Criterion of Dissimilarity : Methodological Aspects of the Quest for Criteria ......172 The Criterion of Historical Plausibility and its Subcriteria ...........173 The Problem of Historical Authenticity .................191 The Problem of Historical Plausibility ..........201 Summary : A new Formulation of the Criteria for historical Jesus Research ..........210 4. Criteria in Jesus Research and the Wide Ugly Ditch of History : Hermeneutical Aspects of the Criteria Issue ................226 Lessing`s Problem : Faith and History ............226 The problem of Historical Sources Criticism ............233 The Problem of Historical Relativism ..............242 The Problem of Historical Strangerness ............251 A paradoxical Resolution: Coming Terms with the Hypothetical in life and thought ..............256