Peter Kirby

I have returned from a week-long vacation in Yosemite.

King Arthur and Vorkosigan and hezekiahjones and CX and Baidarka, I have intentionally restricted my study to living authors. I should probably state this explicitly.

Toto, I may include Robert Price if you could pin down the best slogan for Price's views. I thought about "Jesus the Unknown," but it doesn't fit the pattern of theories about Jesus: agnosticism is no theory.

Sotzo, others elsewhere have suggested Witherington, and I will most likely include him.

IntenSity and others, I appreciate the compliments very much.

Gooch's dad, this is a helpful suggestion, but one of which I will not make use for my own reasons. My focus has been "Historical Jesus Theories" but not "Historical Jesus Theorists," and my interest is in what people have to say but not what right they have to say it.

Toto, I am not listing the religious affiliations partly for the same reason and partly because I am not sure in some cases. (The same goes for professional background.)

godfry n. glad, I appreciate the compliment very much, but I don't agree that you are a lunkhead!

Studies of Q and of Paul would be good starting points for future projects, but not this one.

Kind Bud, if I understand you, you thought that you would be reading about theories on Jesus throughout the ages rather than contemporary theories on the historical Jesus. Sorry to disappoint.

Ether, I used notepad to write the web page, which may have been the root of the problem.

Bede, consider my work concerning the fringes to be "shadows on the contours of the canon." You can't very well understand the middle if you don't know about the left or the right. I have always intended to represent and have always actually represented both "extremes" on the Jesus question in this web page, even if you do not perceive this.

Anunnaki, I am working on the Mac problem.

I am glad for all the responses to my work. But I would be especially interested if anyone has read one of the books that I have summarized and has suggestions for a way to improve the summary. That would be most interesting and helpful.

best,
Peter Kirby

Vorkosigan

Toto, I may include Robert Price if you could pin down the best slogan for Price's views. I thought about "Jesus the Unknown," but it doesn't fit the pattern of theories about Jesus: agnosticism is no theory.

Price's agnosticism is the a refusal to come to a conclusion in advance of facts. It's an irony of scholarly politics that this position is called "radical." Elsewhere it would be labeled "conservative" or "restrained." It may not be a theory; but neither are most views of Jesus.

For Price, how about

Jesus the Legend
Jesus the Unknowable
Jesus the Founding Myth
Jesus the Deconstructed

Vorkosigan