Table of Contents: “…-- Redaction criticism, genre, narrative criticism, and the historical Jesus in the Gospel of John : does John also enshrine a separate memory? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Meyers -- Common Judaism and the multidimensional character of material culture / Jurgen Zangenberg -- Part 3: Jesus and the Gospels -- Jesus in Jewish Galilee / Seán Freyne -- Jewish Galilee : its Hellenization, Romanization, and commercialization / Peter Richardson -- Crucifying Caiaphas : Hellenism and the high priesthood in life of Jesus narratives / Adele Reinhartz -- Gospel chronologies, the scene in the temple, and the crucifixion of Jesus / Paula Fredriksen -- The incident at the temple as the occasion for Jesus' death : meeting some objections / Stephen Hultgren -- The historical Jesus and the historical sabbath / John P. Meier -- Part 4: Paul -- On the source of Paul's problem with Judaism / Craig C. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Paul Beauchamp -- The reality and the wish -- A theology of the two Testaments is necessary today -- Christian-Jewish relations -- The Gospel and cultures -- Biblical law and the violence of the world -- Jesus Christ and the two Testaments -- The challenge -- The commitment of the subject-reader -- The course of the research -- Ethics and aesthetics -- Obstacles -- Exegesis : reading the Scriptures in faith -- Bruna Costacurta -- Christ in contemporary exegesis : where we are and where we are going -- Klemens Stock -- Outline of the situation today -- Thesis 1: the gap between the pre-Paschal Jesus and the post-Paschal Christ has shrunk somewhat -- Thesis 2: the search for the "historical Jesus" continues -- Thesis 3: there is a growing distance from historical-critical exegesis from many sides -- Thesis 4: there are efforts to reclaim the Jewishness of Jesus -- Thesis 5: new approaches are also affecting how we see Christ -- Possible directions for exegetical work on Christ -- First guideline : less violence with the sources -- Second guideline : more trust in the unique form of the sources -- Third guideline : painstaking historical work -- Fourth guideline : the whole as the reference-point -- Christ in John and Mark -- All of God's relations to men are mediated to them through Jesus -- Mark is concentrated on the christological question -- Mark preserves the christological question -- The reception in the church of the dogmatic constitution "dei verbum" -- Albert Cardinal VanHoye -- Scripture and Word of God -- Scripture and tradition -- Revelation and communion -- Inspiration and believing community -- Biblical studies and theology -- Exegesis and the magisterium of the church -- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger original publications.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Constructing christology -- The focus -- The christological question -- The vision -- The place of christology -- Orientation -- Jesus as first among equals -- Remembering the historic Jesus -- God's saving agent -- Part II: Recognitions and interrogations -- Beginning christology at the right place -- Confessing Jesus as Ho Christos: Peter at Caesarea Philippi -- The origin of the story -- Portraying confusion -- Performing the Caesarea Philippi story -- The story of Christ and his disciples -- Confessing Jesus as Ho Christos: Martha and Mary at Bethany -- The encounter at Bethany -- The Supper at Bethany -- John and the Synoptics -- The wisdom of Christian practices at Philippi -- Hymns to Jesus -- Paul's use of the hymn -- Discipleship and christology -- The interrogation by the disciples of John the Baptist at Naim -- Part III: God's reign in practice -- Remembering the politics of the Jesus-Movement -- Polity and practice -- Jesus' mission and the disciples' missions -- Exorcising and healing -- Remembering Jesus' healing as reconciling -- The Jesus-movement as healing and reconciling -- Healing today? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Testing against the historical Jesus3.4. Multiple incarnations?; 4. A Holistic Reading of Surahs 19, 3 and 5 in the Context of a Diachronic Reading of the Qur'an's Verses about Jesus; 4.1. …”
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