Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Jesus Tradition and the Jesus of History: How to Find a Millenarian Prophet (starting p. 1) -- An Imaginary Case Study (starting p. 7) -- The Method of John Dominic Crossan (starting p. 10) -- Quandaries, Alternatives, Paradigms (starting p. 33) -- The Best Research Program (starting p. 39) -- Themes and Rhetorical Strategies (starting p. 45) -- Running the Gauntlet (starting p. 51) -- Speculations on the Evolution of the Tradition (starting p. 69) -- Some Common Features of Millenarianism (starting p. 78) -- 2 The Eschatology of Jesus: Still Ratlos after All These Years (starting p. 95) -- Marcus Borg against E. P. Sanders (starting p. 96) -- The Case against Marcus Borg (starting p. 113) -- The Case against Stephen Patterson (starting p. 122) -- The Final Judgment (starting p. 131) -- The Resurrection of the Dead (starting p. 136) -- The Restoration of Israel (starting p. 141) -- The Great Tribulation (starting p. 145) -- Imminence (starting p. 147) -- The Language of Millenarian Eschatology (starting p. 152) -- 3 Jesus as Millenarian Ascetic: Deleting a Consensus (starting p. 172) -- Current Opinion (starting p. 172) -- Sexual Desire in the Jesus Tradition (starting p. 175) -- The Origin of the Complexes (starting p. 182) -- Renunciation and Eschatology (starting p. 188) -- The Functions of Jesus' Eschatological Asceticism (starting p. 197) -- Epilogue (starting p. 217) -- Index of Ancient Sources (starting p. 221) -- Index of Modern Authors (starting p. 247)