The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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The Quest of the Historical Jesus
by Albert Schweitzer, translated by William Montgomery		 Preface→
Translation of Von Reimarus zu Wrede: Eine Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung (1906). Schweitzer interprets the life of Jesus in relation to Jesus' personal eschatological recordings.


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CONTENTS

chap.     page
I. The Problem  . . .  1
II. Hermann Samuel Reimarus  . . .  13
III. The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism  . . .  27
IV. The Earliest Fictitious Lives of Jesus  . . .  38
V. Fully Developed Rationalism—Paulus  . . .  48
VI.
 		 The Last Phase of Rationalism—Hase and
Schleiermacher		  
 . . . 		  
58
VII. David Friedrich Strauss—The Man and his Fate  . . .  68
VIII. Strauss's first Life of Jesus  . . .  78
IX. Strauss's Opponents and Supporters  . . .  97
X. The Marcan Hypothesis  . . .  121
XI. Bruno Bauer  . . .  137
XII. Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus  . . .  161
XIII. Renan  . . .  180
XIV. The "Liberal" Lives of Jesus  . . .  193
XV. The Eschatological Question  . . .  222
XVI. The Struggle against Eschatology  . . .  241
XVII.
 		 Questions regarding the Aramaic Language,
Rabbinic Parallels, and Buddhistic Influence		  
 . . . 		  
269
XVIII.
 		 The Position of the Subject at the Close of the
Nineteenth Century		  
 . . . 		  
293
XIX.
 		 Thoroughgoing Scepticism and Thoroughgoing
Eschatology		  
 . . . 		  
328
XX. Results  . . .  396


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