challenge some of his conclusions. But his book on Jesus remains a major contribution to the Quest. There are many other writers whose work has to be taken seriously in any attempt to get to grips with what is really happening in modern Jesus-studies. I have discussed those that seem to me to be the most significant, whose work has yet to have its full impact across the gamut of scholarship.15 Taken together, their work propels us forward to ask certain key questions,
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