Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus

New Testament scholar, Craig Evans, is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Yale and other universities, colleges, seminaries and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the Jesus, Archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others. He also has served as a consultant for the National Geographic Society.

• Abiathar. Abraham. Adam. Allegory. Angels. Annas and Caiaphas. Anti-Semitism. Apocalyptic. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Apostleship, Evangelism, Witness. Aramaic and Ipsissima Verba Jesu. Archaeology and Jesus. Archaeology of Galilee and Judea. Ascension. Authenticity Criteria. Baptism of Jesus. Beatitudes and Blessing. Bethany and Bethphage. Bethlehem. Bethsaida. Biography. Birth of Jesus. Blasphemy. Bornkamm, Günther. Buddhist Thought and Jesus. Bultmann, Rudolf. Cadbury, Henry Joel. Caesarea Maritima. Caesarea Philippi. Cana of Galilee. Capernaum. Child, Children. Chorazin. Chreia, Apophthegm. Christ, Messiah. Christology. Chronology. Coinage, Jewish. Coinage, Roman. Compassion on the Poor. Conzelmann, Hans. Curses and Woe

'In this encyclopedia, some 227 entries address "all of the areas involved in the study of the historical Jesus."' – Christopher McConnell, Booklist'Appropriate for theological libraries and research collections.' – Christopher McConnell, Booklist'An attractive addition to the theological collection for a library prepared and able to offer a range of related works for lending' – Reference Reviews