This volume offers critical assessments of Life of Jesus research in the last generation, with special emphasis on recent work. It introduces graduate students to the field and provides veteran scholars with current bibligraphy and discussion of the issues. Topics covered include Jesus and Palestinian politics, Jesus tradition in Paul , Jesus in the extracanonical Gospels, and Jesus’ parables, miracles, death and resurrection. Contributors include Marcus J. Borg, James H. Charlesworth, James D.G. Dunn, Sean Freyne, Richard Horsley and Helmut Koester.