"Dale Allison has the originality and courage to challenge the scholarly status quo, and the knowledge of ancient sources to do it seriously. This is a fresh and refreshing take on the historical Jesus." -- John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School "Stunning essays from arguably the most important--and unarguably the most prolific-- contemporary scholar of the historical Jesus. To borrow from Star Trek , Dale Allison boldly goes where few critical scholars have gone before--parapsychology, miracles, Jesus's knowledge (or lack thereof) of the future, his relations with women--and he does it so logically, and with such a mountain of evidence, that he drags you along with him!" -- Joel Marcus, Duke Divinity School "Happily, Dale Allison has not left Jesus behind. Allison's well-known attention to detail continues in Interpreting Jesus as he updates his thinking on topics where he has had a profound influence on modern historical Jesus and Gospel scholarship (e.g., eschatology, Moses typologies, the miraculous, memory).

He has also continued to produce equally important detailed work on the history of Jesus scholarship and its broader reception, areas overlooked by many peers. Allison's thinking is not easily pigeonholed, and his independence of mind shown in Interpreting Jesus means he will continue to influence scholarship for years to come." -- James Crossley, University of Cambridge and MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society "Dale Allison's new book about Jesus not only enlivens old questions in the quests for the historical Jesus, but it also adds new life at important points: Jesus's expectation of the world's future, his understanding of the past by Moses typology, his metanormal activity, and his interactions with female followers. Most importantly, Allison questions the all-too-easy dichotomy between the historical and the fictional in the Jesus tradition. Allison, a leading Jesus researcher of our time, demonstrates that Jesus research is not yet over. There are always new perspectives and ideas." -- Gerd Theissen, University of Heidelberg.