agrees with Johnson and sharply opposes Borg and Crossan in criticizing their actual use of historical methods and the inappropriately skewed and skeptical results they produce.6 Chapters two (JVG 28–82) and three (JVG 83–124) contrast the legacy of William Wrede’s thoroughgoing skepticism in the post-World War II New Quest of the historical Jesus with the heritage of Albert Schweitzer’s thoroughgoing apocalyptic in the more recent Third Quest.7 With Schweitzer (and more recently E. P. Sanders and
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