Part 1. Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus -- 1. "Third Quest" in Context 3 -- 1906: The Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Discovery of the Apocalyptic Jesus 4 -- 1906-1953: The Abandoned Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Search for the Kerygma of the Early Church 8 -- 1953-1970: The New Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Discovery of the Existentialist Jesus 12 -- 1970-Present: The Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, Diverse Methods, and a Fragmented Synthesis 18 -- 2. Models and Methods in the Quest for the Historical Jesus 34 -- Jesus of the Gaps 34 -- Search for Criteria and Method 36 -- A Part of the Whole Jesus 42 -- Rejection of the Misguided Quest 44 -- Conclusion: The Necessity of the Continuing Quest 46 -- 3. Prophet of the Justice of the Reign of God: An Approach to the Historical Jesus 47 -- Jesus as a Prophet in the Gospels 47 -- Prophets in the Sayings of Jesus and the Gospel Traditions 49 -- Types of Prophets in the Second Temple Era and Time of Jesus 51 -- Israel's Prophetic Tradition in Historical Perspective 60 -- Jesus as Prophet of the Justice of the Reign of God 63 -- Part 2. Jesus of Nazareth: A Contextual Approach -- 4. Search for a Usable Context: Biblical Criticism and the Historical Jesus 72 -- Problem of Defining Context 72 -- Form Criticism and the "Setting in Life" 73 -- Redaction Criticism and the Context of the Evangelist 80 -- Literary Criticisms and Narrative Worlds 83 -- Use of the Social Sciences and the Question of Context 86 -- 5. Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Quest for the Historical Galilee: Jesus in the World of Agrarian Societies, Aristocratic Empires, and Colonized Peoples 90 -- Advanced Agrarian Societies and Aristocratic Empires 90 -- Two Faces of Colonial Occupation: Local Aristocracies and Client Kingship 102 -- Part 3. Jesus the Prophet and the Praxis of the Justice of the Reign of God: Conflicts in Context -- 6. "Something Greater than the Temple Is Here": Subverting the "Cave of Social Bandits" 111 -- A Reading of the Temple Incident 111 -- Role of the Temple in Agrarian Societies and Aristocratic Empires: Legitimizing the Powers That Be 112 -- Jesus and the Temple 123 -- 7. "What Is Written? How Do You Read?" The Torah: Debt, Purity, and Social Control 144 -- Quest for the Historical Synagogue 144 -- Who Were the Pharisees? 147 -- Great Tradition and the Little Tradition 149 -- Jesus and the Torah 155 -- 8. Resistance and Conflict: Jesus' Healings and Debates 168 -- "The Weightier Matters of the Torah" (Matt. 23:23) 168 -- 9. Temple, the Land, and the Reign of God 191 -- Land and the Temple: An Indissoluble Bond? 191 -- Part 4. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem: The "Show Trial" in Jerusalem -- 10. "Show Trial" in Jerusalem: "Why? What Evil Has He Done?" 218 -- Rap Sheet on Jesus 218 -- Show Trial in Jerusalem 240 -- 11. A Concluding Unhistorical Postscript 247 -- Why Seek the Living among the Dead? 247 -- Jesus and Christology 251.