The Quest of the Historical Jesus

A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

By Albert Schweitzer

Privatdocent in New Testament Studies in the University of Strassburg

Translated By W. Montgomery

With a Preface by F. C. Burkitt

Contents

- Preface

- I. The Problem

- II. Hermann Samuel Reimarus

- III. The Lives Of Jesus Of The Earlier Rationalism

- IV. The Earliest Fictitious Lives Of Jesus

- V. Fully Developed Rationalism--Paulus

- VI. The Last Phase Of Rationalism--Hase And Schleiermacher

- VII. David Friedrich Strauss--The Man And His Fate

- VIII. Strauss's First "Life Of Jesus"

- IX. Strauss's Opponents And Supporters

- X. The Marcan Hypothesis

- XI. Bruno Bauer. The First Sceptical Life Of Jesus

- XII. Further Imaginative Lives Of Jesus

- XIII. Renan

- XIV. The "Liberal" Lives Of Jesus

- XV. The Eschatological Question

- XVI. The Struggle Against Eschatology

- XVII. Questions Regarding The Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, And Buddhistic Influence

- XVIII. The Position Of The Subject At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century

- XIX. Thoroughgoing Scepticism And Thoroughgoing Eschatology

- XX. Results

- Index Of Authors And Works

- Footnotes