The Jesus Myth Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Actual Historical Order of Writing of New Testament Books
	Introduction
1	The Nature of the Evidence	1
i	The Age of the Manuscripts and of Some Papyrus Fragments	1
ii	The Importance of Early and Independent Testimony	10
iii	Conclusion: The Origins and Development of Christology	94
2	Miracles in the New Testament and Beyond	114
i	The Virgin Birth	115
ii	The Resurrection	123
iii	Harvey's Defence of Miracles Worked by Jesus	142
iv	The Gospel Exorcisms	151
v	Wider Questions on Exorcisms	160
vi	Philosophical Arguments for Miracles	171
3	Teachings and Non-Miraculous Actions of Jesus Ascribable to the Early Church	178
i	Eschatology and Use of the Old Testament	178
ii	An Irreducible Minimum of Authentic Information?	190
4	The Earliest Non-Christian Testimony	196
i	Roman Notices	196
ii	Josephus	200
iii	The Absence of Independent Testimony	221
5	Ethics in the New Testament and in the History of Christianity	224
i	Jesus and Belief in Him as a Guide to Personal Behaviour	224
ii	Social Ethics	232
iii	Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Ecumenism	241
	Conclusion	244
	Afterword	253
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	295
	Index of New Testament References	315
	General Index	322