Contents

PART ONE
The Man who believed He was Messiah

1 The Last Times

2 He that should Come

3 A Child is Born

4 The Formative Years

5 The Anointing

6 Attempt and Failure

7 The Disclosure

8 Setting the Stage

9 The King Comes

10 The Plot Matures

11 It is Finished

12 Thou wilt show me the Path of Life

13 He is not Here

14 Faith and Deeds

PART TWO
The Sources and Growth of the Legend

1 Messianism and the Development of Christianity

2 North Palestinean Sectarians and Christian Origins

3 The Suffering Just One and the Son of Man

4 Gospels in the Making

5 The Second Phase

6 Some Gospel Mysteries