Those who have read Volume One of A Marginal Jew know that it is largely programmatic, a prolegomenon to the work as a whole, an extended method-plus-introduction. It lays out the problem of the historical Jesus, the method to be used to meet the problem, information about Jesus’ origins and background, and finally a rough chronological grid of his life. With this setting of the stage Volume One ends. It is only the present volume, Volume Two, that
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