<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> It is hardly possible to keep track of the multitude of publications that take up the question of the historical Jesus. Nevertheless, this new textbook compiles a wide set of relevant contributions on Jesus research from the 18th century to the present, furnishing an in-depth survey of the field. In their introduction, the editors place each of the texts in its proper scientific context, thereby illuminating the successive stages of Jesus research from a historical perspective.