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Schweitzer, Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung, vol. 2, p. 620: “Recognized by the peculiar, special character of his ideas and action, he [the historical Jesus] will always embody [literally, ‘retain’] for our age something strange and puzzling” (translation mine).

Ernst Käsemann expresses the point this way: “Such research [into the historical Jesus] is theologically meaningful insofar as it struggles to grasp the unmistakable individuality of this earthly Jesus. The King of heaven has no countenance, unless it is that of the Nazarene” (“Die neue Jesus-Frage,” Jésus aux origines de la christologie, ed. J. Dupont, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium 40 [Leuven: Leuven University; Gembloux: Duculot, 1975], pp. 47–57).

Cf. the remarks of Rudolf Schnackenburg, “Der geschichtliche Jesus in seiner ständigen Bedeutung für Theologie und kirche,” Rückfrage nach Jesus, ed. Karl Kertelge, Quaestiones disputatae 63 (Freiburg: Herder, 1974), pp. 194–220.

E.P Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985).

Günther Bornkamm, Jesus of Nazareth, English transl. (New York: Harper & Row, 1960).

Joachim Jeremias, The Problem of the Historical Jesus, English transl. (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1964).

Herbert Braun, Jesus of Nazareth: The Man and His Time (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979).

Eduard Schweizer, Lordship and Discipleship, Studies in Biblical Theology 28 (Naperville, IL: Allenson, 1960).

Albert Schweitzer, Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung; English transl. The Quest of the Historical Jesus (New York: Macmillan, 1910, repr. 1968).