This is an introductory guide to the ways Jesus is depicted in the New
Testament. Both college students and the general reader will find here a
variety of New Testament understandings of Jesus that are rooted in
critical reading of the four gospels and Pauline letters. This new
edition adds historical context to the portraits of Jesus as each
document is somewhat shaped by historical factors. This work presumes
neither religious faith nor lack of faith; its aim is to inform and to
stimulate some fundamental questions as well as to give the readers
portraits as synthetic balance to the vital work of analysis.