| Preface: The Lost Years |
ix |
| Prologue: The Content of Your Vision |
xiii |
| Part I Continuation and Reconstruction |
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| Chapter 1 Voices of the First Outsiders |
3 |
| Chapter 2 Reconstructing Earliest Christianity |
19 |
| Part II Memory and Orality |
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| Chapter 3 The Mystique of Oral Tradition |
49 |
| Chapter 4 Does Memory Remember? |
59 |
| Chapter 5 A Tale of Two Professors |
69 |
| Chapter 6 Chasm or Interface? |
85 |
| Part III Gospels and Sources |
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| Chapter 7 Admitting Gospel Presuppositions |
95 |
| Chapter 8 Relating Gospel Contents |
103 |
| Chapter 9 Comparing Gospel Manuscripts |
121 |
| Part IV Methodology and Anthropology |
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| Chapter 10 The Problem of Methodology |
139 |
| Chapter 11 Cross-Cultural Anthropology |
151 |
| Part V History and Archeology |
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| Chapter 12 Judeo-Roman History |
177 |
| Chapter 13 Galilean Archeology |
209 |
| Part VI Kingdom and Eschatology |
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| Chapter 14 A Comparison of Two Early Gospels |
239 |
| Chapter 15 Apocalyptic and Ascetical Eschatology |
257 |
| Chapter 16 Ethical Eschatology |
273 |
| Part VII Healers and Itinerants |
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| Prologue: The Meaning of Healing |
293 |
| Chapter 17 Negating Apocalyptic Eschatology |
305 |
| Chapter 18 Affirming Ethical Eschatology |
317 |
| Epilogue: The Social Status of Jesus |
345 |
| Part VIII Teachers and Householders |
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| Chapter 19 Criticizing the Householders |
355 |
| Chapter 20 Controlling the Itinerants |
363 |
| Chapter 21 Interpreting the Commands |
383 |
| Chapter 22 A Divided Tradition |
407 |
| Part IX Meal and Community |
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| Chapter 23 The Common Meal Tradition |
423 |
| Chapter 24 Communities of Resistance |
445 |
| Part X Story and Tradition |
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| Chapter 25 The Other Passion-Resurrection Story |
481 |
| Chapter 26 Exegesis, Lament, and Biography |
527 |
| Epilogue: The Character of Your God |
575 |
| Appendixes |
587 |
| Bibliography |
607 |
| Subject Index |
633 |
| Author Index |
643 |
| Text Index |
647 |