disagree with much that he has to say). His conclusions are offered as the products of arguments, and they merit being met by arguments. They certainly cannot be undone by observations about Funk’s biography or personal convictions. Were I to imagine otherwise, fairness would require that I shoot ad hominem arrows at my own Jesus on the grounds that an intertextually savvy and otherworldly prophet is suspiciously congenial. Still, the ease with which Funk’s historical Jesus comes to Funk’s theological