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- There are, of course, notable exceptions. See, for example, David
Flusser and R. Steven Notley, The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering
Jesus’ Genius, 4th edn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007 [1968]). - See the survey of the so-called “Third Quest” in John P. Meier,
‘The Present State of the “Third Quest” for the Historical Jesus: Loss
and Gain’, Biblica, 80 (1999), 459–487. There have been significant
differences of opinion on the relative weight that should be placed
upon non-canonical sources in reconstructions. Contrast, for exam-
ple, the use of non-canonical texts in Crossan, The Historical Jesus,
with that in John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical
Jesus (New York: Doubleday, 1991). - For a useful introduction to these see Meier, A Marginal Jew and
Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus. Volume 1: How to
Study the Historical Jesus, ed. by Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter,
4 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2010). - These criteria are not new but have been used, in various forms,
since the 1920s. See Stanley E. Porter, The Criteria for Authenticity in
Historical-Jesus Research: Previous Discussion and New Proposals
(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 63–102. - Joel Willitts, ‘Presuppositions and Procedures in the Study of
the Historical Jesus: Or, Why I Decided Not to Be a Historical Jesus
Scholar’, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 3 (2005), 61–108. - For a helpful survey of these see Helen K. Bond, The Historical
Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: T&T Clark, 2012),
pp. 19–36; David B. Gowler, What Are They Saying About the
Historical Jesus? (New York: Paulist Press, 2007). - Porter, Criteria, and Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter, The
Quest for the Plausible Jesus: the Question of Criteria (Louisville:
Westminster John Knox Press, 2002). - M. D. Hooker, ‘Christology and Methodology’, New Testament
Studies, 17 (1971), 480–487. - Dale C. Allison, Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and
History (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010); Anthony Le Donne,
The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of
David (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009) and Historical Jesus:
What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? (Grand Rapids: