Meier (New Testament Studies/Catholic Univ.) divides this successor to Volume One (subtitled The Roots of the Problem and the Person, 1991) into three parts: an examination of the pervasive effect on Jesus of the life and career of John the Baptist, whom Meier calls Jesus' ``mentor'' an analysis of the centrality to Jesus' message of the concept of the ``kingdom of God'' and an extended discussion of the historicity of Gospel accounts of Jesus' miracles, healings, and exorcisms. This second volume of Meier's magisterial attempt to create a ``consensus document'' about the historical Jesus on which scholars of all faiths could agree makes some tantalizing assertions about Jesus' public ministry.
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