Table of Contents

Foreword Morna HookerIntroduction - The Rise of the Quest for an Authentic Jesus: An Introduction to the Crumbling Foundations of Jesus Studies Anthony Le DonnePart One: Historical Methodology and the Quest for an Authentic JesusThe Indebtedness of the Criteria Approach to Form Criticism and Recent Attempts to Rehabilitate the Search for an Authentic Jesus Chris KeithThe Criteria of Authenticity in Jesus Research and Historiographical Method Jens SchröterPart Two: Specific Criteria in the Quest for an Authentic JesusWhy the Criterion of Semitisms Cannot Deliver Authenticity Loren StuckenbruckThe Criterion of Coherence: Its Development, Inevitability, and Historiographical Limitations Anthony Le DonneSaving the Quest for Authenticity from the Criterion of Dissimilarity: History and Plausibility Dagmar WinterThe Embarrassing Truth about Jesus: The Demise of the Criterion of Embarrassment Rafael RodriguezCriticizing the Criterion of Multiple Attestation: The Historical Jesus and the Question of Sources Mark GoodacrePart Three: Reflections on Moving Past Traditional Jesus ResearchWhy the Authentic Jesus is Useless for the Church Scot McKnightIt Don't Come Easy: A History of Disillusionment Dale AllisonConclusion - The Fall of the Quest for an Authentic Jesus: Concluding Remarks Chris Keith

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This volume discusses the new approaches regarding the criteria of authenticity and their relevance in the quest for the historical Jesus studies.

About the Author

Chris Keith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Reviews

This book needs to be heard attentively.
*The Heythrop Journal*

[Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity] make[s] a singular contribution by calling for a renewal of how biblical scholarship approaches the quest for the historical Jesus.
*Bible Today*

Overall, each article is well written and the footnotes leave the reader with plenty of extra reading material to pursue for further research. Each scholar is qualified to speak on these topics. The issues they bring up are very relevant to the topic of Jesus studies. I also found Mark Goodacre’s chapter on Multiple Attestation chapter to be helpful.
*THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM*