Translation of : Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung.

An Appreciation of Albert Schweitzer / Marcus J. Borg -- Editor's Note / John Bowden -- Foreword to the Complete Edition / Dennis Nineham -- The Problem -- Hermann Samuel Reimarus -- The Lives of Jesus of Earlier Rationalism -- The Earliest Imaginative Lives of Jesus -- Fully Developed Rationalism--Paulus -- The Last Phase Of Rationalism--Hase and Schleiermacher -- David Friedrich Strauss--The Man and his Fate -- Strauss's First 'Life of Jesus' -- Strauss's Opponents and Supporters -- The Markan Hypothesis -- Bruno Bauer -- Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus -- Renan -- The 'Liberal' Lives of Jesus -- The Eschatological Question -- Against Eschatology -- Aramaic, Rabbinic, Buddhist -- The Quest of the Historical Jesus at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Criticism of the Modern Historical View by Wrede and Thoroughgoing Eschatology -- Description and Criticism of Wrede's Hypothesis -- The Solution of Thoroughgoing Eschatology -- The Most Recent Disputing of the Historicity of Jesus -- The Debate about the Historicity of Jesus -- 1907 to 1912.