Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xv

Images of Jesus: An Overview 1
Delbert Burkett

Part I Jesus in the New Testament 11

1 Mark’s Portrait of Jesus 13
William R. Telford

2 Who Do You Say That I Am? A Matthean Response 30
Elaine M. Wainwright

3 Jesus in Luke-Acts 47
Delbert Burkett

4 John’s Portrait of Jesus 64
Mary L. Coloe

5 Jesus in Q 81
Christopher Tuckett

6 Paul, Jesus, and Christ 94
Edward Adams

7 Jesus in the General Epistles 111
Harold W. Attridge

8 Jesus in the Apocalypse 119
Ian Boxall

9 Constructing Images of Jesus from the Hebrew Bible 127
Warren Carter

Part II Jesus Beyond the New Testament 143

10 Ancient Apocryphal Portraits of Jesus 145
J. K. Elliott

11 Gnostic Portraits of Jesus 160
Majella Franzmann

12 The Christ of the Creeds 176
Khaled Anatolios

13 Jesus in Atonement Theories 193
Stephen Finlan

Part III Jesus in World Religions 213

14 Jewish Perspectives on Jesus 215
Michael J. Cook

15 Islamic Perspectives on Jesus 232
Reem A. Meshal and M. Reza Pirbhai

16 Hindu Perspectives on Jesus 250
Sandy Bharat

17 Buddhist Perspectives on Jesus 267
Peggy Morgan

Part IV Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on Jesus 283

18 Skeptical Perspectives on Jesus’ Resurrection 285
Michael Martin

19 The Quest for the Historical Jesus: An Overview 301
David B. Gowler

20 The “Jesus” of the Jesus Seminar 319
Robert J. Miller

21 The Quest for the Historical Jesus: An Appraisal 337
Helen K. Bond

Part V Modern Manifestations of Jesus 355

22 Modern Western Christology 357
John P. Galvin

23 Christology in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 375
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

24 Jesus in American Culture 394
Paul Harvey

25 The Black Christ 410
Kelly Brown Douglas with Delbert Burkett

26 Feminist Christologies 427
Lisa Isherwood

27 The “Gay” Jesus 443
Theodore W. Jennings Jr.

28 Modern Mystifications of Jesus 458
Per Beskow

Part VI Jesus in Art, Fiction, and Film 475

29 Jesus in Christian Art 477
Robin M. Jensen

30 Jesus Novels: Solving Problems with Fiction 504
Zeba A. Crook

31 Jesus in Film 519
Adele Reinhartz

Index 532

About the Author

Delbert Burkett is Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of The Son of Man Debate: A History and Evaluation (1999), An Introduction to the New Testament and Origins of Christianity (2002), and Rethinking the Gospel Sources: From Proto-Mark to Mark (2004).

Reviews

This Companion will be a necessary part of anyserious theological library. The essays are consistently strong andpresent invaluable orientations to their assigned topic. The realsuccess of this book lies in bringing together perspectives onJesus from so many sources of attention: texts, culture, history,various theologies, worldwide Christianity, world religions andmedia. Strongly recommended. (Journal for the Study ofThe New Testament, 2012) This is another excellent contribution to religiousscholarship by Wiley-Blackwell. Chapters are scholarly but readablefor the more general enquirer and some have illustrations, anunusual feature for this series of books. This volume is highlyrecommended for any library that has strong religious collections,whether Christian or not, and should endure for some years as astandard work in the field. (ReferenceReviews, 2011) No collection of essays better represents the remarkablediversity in the approaches to the elusive Jesus of Nazareth ...Recommended: upper-level undergraduates and above. (Choice, 1 May 2011) Burkett has assembled an extraordinary collection of essaysthat invites a wide readership. (Books News,2011) An imaginative collection of essays ... No fewerthan 32 authors have been recruited to write essays, allabout 15 pages in length, and there is hardly any overlap amongthem, even in dealing with basic New Testament texts. The editor,Delburt Burkett, is to be commended. (The Journal ofTheological Studies, 2011)