A Book to look out for - 'The Historical Jesus: Five Views'

The Historical Jesus: Five Views is a collaborative discussion by a number of scholars on their specific approach to historical Jesus methodology. Well, when I say scholars that is not the correct word. See, we have the big names of historical Jesus scholarship such as John Dominic Crossan (The Historical Jesus; The Essential Jesus and many more); James D.G. Dunn author of the massive and influential volume Jesus Remembered; Luke Timothy Johnson, a Catholic scholar and author of The Real Jesus; and Darrell L. Bock, an influential Evangelical New Testament scholar, author of Studying the Historical Jesus and Jesus According to Scripture. Then, finally we have another scholar - one who does not fit into the category of above. We find, for some reason or another - maybe to set up a strawman for slaughter - Robert M. Price. Price is a controversial scholar who spends his time trying to collect a following on the internet as his recycling of dead Jesus-Myth hypotheses don't fly with any other scholar.

Anyway, I am sure the table of contents of this book expected to be released in November this year will actually say something (and something more than myself having never seen the book):

Table of Contents

The Historical Jesus: An Introduction
Paul Rhodes Eddy and James K. Beilby

1. Jesus at the Vanishing Point
Robert M. Price
Responses:
John Dominic Crossan
Luke Timothy Johnson
James D. G. Dunn
Darrell L. Bock

2. Jesus and the Challenge of Collaborative Eschatology
John Dominic Crossan
Responses:
Robert M. Price
Luke Timothy Johnson
James D. G. Dunn
Darrell L. Bock

3. Learning the Human Jesus: Historical Criticism and Literary Criticism
Luke Timothy Johnson
Responses:
Robert M. Price
John Dominic Crossan
James D. G. Dunn
Darrell L. Bock

4. Remembering Jesus: How the Quest of the Historical Jesus Lost Its Way
James D. G. Dunn
Responses:
Robert M. Price
John Dominic Crossan
Luke Timothy Johnson
Darrell L. Bock

5. The Historical Jesus: An Evangelical View
Darrell L. Bock
Responses:
Robert M. Price
John Dominic Crossan
Luke Timothy Johnson
James D. G. Dunn

A primer on this book for anyone who is interested would be Ben Witherington's The Jesus Quest: The Third Quest for the Jew of Nazareth as it overviews the work of Crossan - among others from all sides of the debate. Dunn's far shorter work A New Perspectiveon Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed as well as N.T. Wright's 100 or so page Contemporary Quest for Jesus. Finally, for a bit of details on methedology as opposed to an overview of portraits try Bock's Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods. There is no need to direct anything with regard to Price's work as I am sure all the criteria of the other respective scholars will demonstrate how unfeasable Price's position is. The only person who would have problems against it- or at least give it some wiggle room - would be Crossan and his reading of myth into the Gospels.

Anyway, that is me for now!