F.C. Burkitt -- James M. Robinson -- The problem -- Herman Samuel Reimarus -- The lives of Jesus of the earlier rationalism -- The earliest fictitious 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 Marcan hypotheses -- Bruno Bauer -- Further imaginative lives of Jesus -- Renan -- The "liberal" lives of Jesus -- The eschatological question -- The struggle against eschatology -- Questions regarding the Aramaic language, rabbinic parallels, and Buddhistic influence -- The position of the subject at the close of the nineteenth century -- Thoroughgoing scepticism and thoroughgoing eschatology -- Results -- Index of authors and works, including reference to English translations.
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