If you have $311 (USD) lying around and want to invest it in one of the most complete resources on historical Jesus studies, you will want to pick this up:
Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), The Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxii, 3652 pp.
The deal is for the paperback version of this four-volume work; below is an outline of the four volumes and the chapters included in each volume.
Volume 1: How to Study the Historical Jesus
By: Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
Pages: i–xxi
- Contemporary Methodological Approaches How to Marginalize the Traditional Criteria of Authenticity
By: Dale C Allison
Pages: 1–30 - Fourth Quest? What Did Jesus Really Want?
By: Ernst Baasland
Pages: 31–56 - The Search for Jesus’ Special Profile
By: Jürgen Becker
Pages: 57–89 - The Historical Jesus: How to Ask Questions and Remain Inquisitive
By: James H. Charlesworth
Pages: 91–128
Method in a Critical Study of Jesus
By: Bruce D. Chilton
Pages: 129–158 - Context and Text in Historical Jesus Methodology
By: John Dominic Crossan
Pages: 159–181 - Remembering Jesus: How the Quest of the Historical Jesus Lost its Way
By: James D. G. Dunn
Pages: 183–205 - Jesus-in-Context: A Relational Approach
By: Richard A. Horsley
Pages: 207–239 - Sources, Methods and Discursive Locations in the Quest of the Historical Jesus
By: John S. Kloppenborg
Pages: 241–290 - Basic Methodology in the Quest for the Historical Jesus
By: John P. Meier
Pages: 291–331 - Jesus Research as Feedback on His Wirkungsgeschichte
By: Petr Pokorný
Pages: 333–359 - The Role of Greek Language Criteria in Historical Jesus Research
By: Stanley E. Porter
Pages: 361–404 - From the Messianic Teacher to the Gospels of Jesus Christ
By: Rainer Riesner
Pages: 405–446 - The Gospel of the Historical Jesus
By: James M. Robinson
Pages: 447–474 - Scholarly Rigor and Intuition in Historical Research into Jesus
By: Jacques Schlosser
Pages: 475–507 - Critical Feminist Historical-Jesus Research
By: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Pages: 509–548 - Historical Scepticism and the Criteria of Jesus Research: My Attempt to Leap Over Lessing’s Ugly Wide Ditch
By: Gerd Theissen
Pages: 549–587 - A Metalanguage for the Historical Jesus Methods: An Experiment
By: Tom Holmén
Pages: 589–616 - Various Aspects of Historical Jesus Methodology With the Grain and against the Grain: A Strategy for Reading the Synoptic Gospels
By: Colin Brown
Pages: 617–648 - Form Criticism and Jesus Research
By: Arland J. Hultgren
Pages: 649–671 - Tradition Criticism and Jesus Research
By: Grant R. Osborne
Pages: 673–693 - The Criteria of Authenticity
By: Stanley E. Porter
Pages: 695–714 - Alternatives to Form and Tradition Criticism in Jesus Research
By: Tobias Nicklas
Pages: 715–742 - Social-Scientific Approaches and Jesus Research
By: Bruce J. Malina
Pages: 743–775 - New Literary Criticism and Jesus Research
By: Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Pages: 777–807 - Memory Theory and Jesus Research
By: Alan Kirk
Pages: 809–842 - The Burden of Proof in Jesus Research
By: Dagmar Winter
Pages: 843–851
Volume 2: The Study of Jesus
By: Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
Pages: i–xxi
- The Ongoing Quest for the Historical Jesus The Quest of the Unhistorical Jesus and the Quest of the Historical Jesus
By: Colin Brown
Pages: 853–886 - Futures for the Jesus Quests
By: Bengt Holmberg
Pages: 887–917 - The Parable of the Goose and the Mirror: The Historical Jesus in the Theological Discipline
By: Scot McKnight
Pages: 919–951 - Historical Jesus Research in Global Cultural Context
By: Teresa Okure
Pages: 953–984 - Diverse Agendas at Work in the Jesus Quest
By: Clive Marsh
Pages: 985–1020 - Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of Faith: Approaches to the Question in Historical Jesus Research
By: Sven-Olav Back
Pages: 1021–1054 - The Jesus Quest and Jewish-Christian Relations
By: Donald A. Hagner
Pages: 1055–1077 - Historic Jesuses
By: Cees den Heyer
Pages: 1079–1101 - Current Questions of Jesus Research Jesus and Cynicism
By: F. Gerald Downing
Pages: 1103–1136 - Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel
By: Steve Moyise
Pages: 1137–1167 - Implicit Christology and the Historical Jesus
By: Edwin K. Broadhead
Pages: 1169–1182 - Jesus and the “Partings of the Ways”
By: Michael F. Bird
Pages: 1183–1215 - Prophet, Sage, Healer, Messiah, and Martyr: Types and Identities of Jesus
By: Craig A. Evans
Pages: 1217–1243 - Jesus im Licht der Qumrangemeinde
By: Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn
Pages: 1245–1285 - Jesus without Q
By: Michael Goulder
Pages: 1287–1311 - Dispensing with the Priority of Mark
By: David L. Dungan
Pages: 1313–1342 - The Role of Aramaic in Reconstructing the Teaching of Jesus
By: Maurice Casey
Pages: 1343–1375 - The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Postmodern Perspective: A Hypothetical Argument
By: Moisés Mayordomo and Peter-Ben Smit
Pages: 1377–1409 - Why Study the Historical Jesus?
By: Colin Brown
Pages: 1411–1438 - Persisting Issues Adjacent to the Jesus Quest The Context of Jesus: Jewish and/or Hellenistic?
By: Stanley E. Porter
Pages: 1439–1463 - Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Herodians
By: Étienne Nodet
Pages: 1495–1543 - The Son of Man in Ancient Judaism
By: John J. Collins
Pages: 1545–1568 - Jewish Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism
By: Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Pages: 1569–1607 - Anti-Judaism and the New Testament
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
Pages: 1609–1638 - The Writings of Josephus: Their Significance for New Testament Study
By: Steve Mason
Pages: 1639–1686 - Rabbinic Writings in New Testament Research
By: David Instone-Brewer
Pages: 1687–1721 - Synagogue and Sanhedrin in the First Century
By: Lester L. Grabbe
Pages: 1723–1745 - Echoes from the Wilderness: The Historical John the Baptist
By: Knut Backhaus
Pages: 1747–1785 - Historiographical Literature in the New Testament Period (1st and 2nd centuries CE)
By: Eve-Marie Becker
Pages: 1787–1817
Volume 3: The Historical Jesus
By: Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
Pages: i–xxi
- Jesus Tradition in Individual Documents The Historical Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
By: Joanna Dewey
Pages: 1819–1852 - Jesus Tradition in non-Markan Material Common to Matthew and Luke
By: Christopher Tuckett
Pages: 1853–1874 - The Special Material in Matthew’s Gospel
By: C.P Donald Senior
Pages: 1875–1899
Restricted Access - Luke and Acts
By: John Nolland
Pages: 1901–1931 - The Non-Synoptic Jesus: An Introduction to John, Paul, Thomas, and Other Outsiders of the Jesus Quest
By: Michael Labahn
Pages: 1933–1996 - Jesus Tradition in the Gospel of John
By: D. Moody Smith
Pages: 1997–2039 - Jesus Tradition in the Letters of the New Testament
By: David Wenham
Pages: 2041–2057 - The Thomas-Jesus Connection
By: Edwin K. Broadhead
Pages: 2059–2080 - Traditions about Jesus in Apocryphal Gospels (with the Exception of the Gospel of Thomas)
By: Tobias Nicklas
Pages: 2081–2118 - “Jesus Tradition in Early Patristic Writings
By: Riemer Roukema
Pages: 2119–2147 - Jesus Tradition in Classical and Jewish Writings
By: Robert E. Van Voorst
Pages: 2149–2180 - Fundamentally About Jesus The Historicity of Jesus: How Do We Know That Jesus Existed?
By: Samuel Byrskog
Pages: 2181–2211 - Background I: Jesus of History and the Topography of the Holy Land
By: James H. Charlesworth
Pages: 2213–2242 - Background II: (Some) Literary Documents
By: Martin McNamara
Pages: 2243–2290 - Background III: The Social and Political Climate in which Jesus of Nazareth Preached
By: Wolfgang Stegemann
Pages: 2291–2314 - The Chronology of Jesus
By: Harold W. Hoehner
Pages: 2315–2359 - The Birth of Jesus
By: Richard T. France
Pages: 2361–2382 - The Death of Jesus
By: Joel B. Green
Pages: 2383–2408 - The Resurrection of Jesus
By: Pheme Perkins
Pages: 2409–2432 - Family, Friends, and Foes
By: Joel B. Green
Pages: 2433–2453 - The Language(s) Jesus Spoke
By: Stanley E. Porter
Pages: 2455–2471 - The Self-Understanding of Jesus
By: Mathias Kreplin
Pages: 2473–2516 - The Message of Jesus I: Miracles, Continuing Controversies
By: Graham H. Twelftree
Pages: 2517–2548 - The Message of Jesus II: Parables
By: Arland J. Hultgren
Pages: 2549–2571
Restricted Access - Jesus and The Legacy of Israel Jesus and God
By: Marianne Meye Thompson
Pages: 2573–2596 - Jesus and The Sabbath
By: Sven-Olav Back
Pages: 2597–2633 - Jesus and the Temple
By: Jostein Ådna
Pages: 2635–2675 - Jesus and the Shema
By: Kim Huat Tan
Pages: 2677–2707 - Jesus and the Purity Paradigm
By: Tom Holmén
Pages: 2709–2744 - Jesus and the Law
By: William Loader
Pages: 2745–2772 - Jesus and the Holy Land
By: Karen J. Wenell
Pages: 2773–2799 - Jesus and Sinners and Outcasts
By: Bruce Chilton
Pages: 2801–2833 - Jesus and Israel’s Eschatological Constitution
By: Steven M. Bryan
Pages: 2835–2853 - Jesus, Satan, and Company
By: Darrell Bock
Pages: 2855–2875 - Jesus and Apocalypticism
By: Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Pages: 2877–2909
Volume 4: Individual Studies
By: Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
Pages: i–xxi
- The “Dark Side of Power”—Beelzebul: Manipulated or Manipulator? Reflections on the History of a Conflict in the Traces Left in the Memory of its Narrators
By: Michael Labahn
Pages: 2911–2945 - Did Jesus Break the Fifth (Fourth) Commandment?
By: Peter Balla
Pages: 2947–2972 - Did Jesus Stay at Bethsaida? Arguments from Ancient Texts and Archaeology for Bethsaida and et-Tell
By: Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn
Pages: 2973–3021 - Flawed Heroes and Stories Jesus Told: The One About a Man Wanting to Kill
By: Charles W. Hedrick
Pages: 3023–3056 - Jesus and Magic: The Question of the Miracles
By: Bernd Kollmann
Pages: 3057–3085 - Jesus and the Greeks: A Semiotic Reading of John 12:20–28
By: Joseph Pathrapankal
Pages: 3087–3104 - Jesus and the Synagogue
By: Graham H. Twelftree
Pages: 3105–3134 - Jesus and the Ten Words
By: Hermut Loehr
Pages: 3135–3154 - Jesus as Moving Image: The Public Responsibility of the Historical Jesus Scholar in the Age of Film
By: Clive Marsh
Pages: 3155–3178 - Jesus’ “Magic” from a Theodicean Perspective
By: Tom Holmén
Pages: 3179–3200 - Jesus’ “Rhetoric”: The Rise and Fall of “The Kingdom of God”
By: James M. Robinson
Pages: 3201–3220
Jewish Galilee
By: Etienne Nodet
Pages: 3221–3243 - On Avoiding Bothersome Busyness: Q/Luke 12:22–31 in its Greco-Roman Context
By: Gerald Downing
Pages: 3245–3268 - Poverty and Wealth in Jesus and the Jesus Tradition
By: Heinz Giesen
Pages: 3269–3303 - The Question of the Baptists’ Disciples on Fasting (Matt 9:14–17; Mark 2:18–22; Luke 5:33–39)
By: Rainer Riesner
Pages: 3305–3347 - Riddles, Wit, and Wisdom
By: Tom Thatcher
Pages: 3349–3372 - Three Questions about the Life of Jesus
By: Christian-Bernard Amphoux
Pages: 3373–3408 - Why Was Jesus Not Born in Nazareth?
By: Armand Puig I Tàrrech
Pages: 3409–3436 - Words of Jesus in Paul: On the Theology and Praxis of the Jesus Tradition
By: Petr Pokorný
Pages: 3437–3467
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