The Cambridge Companion to Jesus

This Companion''s starting point is the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history or as a man like any other man. History literature theology and the dynamic of a living worldwide religious reality appropriately impinge on the study of Jesus. This book therefore incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus with the larger issues of critical method--the story of Christian faith and study as well as Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam.