Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and indexes

Context, family and formation / Craig A. Evans -- Jesus and his Judaism / Peter J. Tomson -- Jesus and his God / Marianne Meye Thompson -- Message and miracles / Graham Stanton -- Friends and enemies / Bruce Chilton -- Crucifixion / Joel B. Green -- Resurrection / Markus Bockmuehl -- Sources and methods / Christopher Tuckett -- Quests for the historical Jesus / James Carleton Paget -- The quest for the real Jesus / Francis Watson -- Many gospels, one Jesus? / Stephen C. Barton -- The Christ of the Old and New Testaments / R.W.L. Moberly -- Jesus in Christian doctrine / Alan Torrance -- A history of faith in Jesus / Rowan Williams -- The global Jesus / Teresa Okure -- Jerusalem after Jesus / David B. Burrell -- The future of Jesus Christ / Richard Bauckham

This Companion takes as its starting point the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history, 'a man like any other man'. History, literature, theology and the dynamic of a living, worldwide religious reality, all appropriately impinge on the study of Jesus. The two parts of the book roughly correspond to the interdependent tasks of historical description and critical and theological reflection. It incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus the Jew with the 'bigger issues' of critical method, the story of Christian faith and study, and Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam. Written by seventeen leading international scholars, the book encourages students of the historical Jesus to discover the vital contribution of theology, and students of doctrine to engage the Christ of faith as Jesus the first-century Jew