The Quest of the Historical Jesus

A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

By Albert Schweitzer

D. THEOL., D. PHIL., D. MED.

Translated by W. Montgomery

From the First German Edition "Von Reimarus zu Wrede," 1906.

With a Preface by F. C. Burkitt, D.D.

First English Edition, 1910.

Published in Great Britain by A. & C. Black, Ltd.

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Preface
1. The Problem	1
2. Hermann Samuel Reimarus	13
3. The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism	27
4. The Earliest Fictitious Lives of Jesus	38
5. Fully Developed Rationalism - Paulus	48
6. The Last Phase of Rationalism - Hase and Schleiermacher	58
7. David Friedrich Strauss - The Man and his Fate	68
8. Strauss's First "Life of Jesus"	78
9. Strauss's Opponents and Supporters	96
10. The Marcan Hypothesis	121
11. Bruno Bauer	137
12. Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus	161
13. Renan	180
14. The "Liberal" Lives of Jesus	193
15. The Eschatological Question	223
16. The Struggle against Eschatology	242
17. Questions regarding the Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, and Buddhistic Influence	270
18. The Position of the Subject at the Close of the Nineteenth Century	294
19. Thoroughgoing Scepticism and Thoroughgoing Eschatology	330
20. Results	398

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