Temple. What Jesus might have thought about his own role, or even his impending death, is for Bornkamm impossible to know. There was nothing particularly new in any of this, but Bornkamm’s work became the standard work on Jesus for several decades to come. The most striking feature of the New Quest was its attention to methodology. Participants wanted to get back to the words of Jesus, the ipsissima verba. But how was this to be done? Form critical analysis of the synoptic Gospels could identify