Contents

Cover

Title Page

Introduction

Part I Evidence for the Historical Jesus

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Mythical View of Jesus

Chapter 2 Non-Christian Sources for the Life of Jesus

Chapter 3 The Gospels as Historical Sources

Chapter 4 Evidence for Jesus from Outside the Gospels

Chapter 5 Two Key Data for the Historicity of Jesus

Part II The Mythicists’ Claims

Chapter 6 The Mythicist Case: Weak and Irrelevant Claims

Chapter 7 Mythicist Inventions: Creating the Mythical Christ

Part III Who Was the Historical Jesus?

Chapter 8 Finding the Jesus of History

Chapter 9 Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet

Conclusion Jesus and the Mythicists

Bibliography

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

About the Publisher