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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

Tradition criticism or tradition history (both translations of the German technical term Traditionsgeschichte) refer to the study of the development of traditions, especially those about Jesus, until they were fixed in their final written form. Because of this interest in historical development, a secondary concern of this discipline has been that of determining the authenticity of a given saying or narrative, the criteria for determining such authenticity and the stages of historical