studyguide

Study Guide

The study guide is available free of charge for distribution to discussion group participants in either print or digital format.

It provides resources for 12 or 13 weeks of group discussion, although some groups will prefer to arrange the discussion into three sets of 4 sessions each:

  • Getting Started: Introduction

  • Set 1: Recent Research into the World of Jesus (Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4)

  • Set 2: Jesus in the Gospels (Chapters 5, 6, 7 & 8)

  • Set 3: The Significance of Jesus Now (Chapters 9, 10, 11 & 12)

The guide is available in two different digital formats:

# Due to some changes made to pagination between the first and second printing, the study guides are available in different "editions" that reflect these differences in the page numbering. For the convenience of discussion groups which may have different print runs of the book, there is an incremental "creep" of page numbers as you proceed through the book:

Front Matter (no changes)

Introduction (no changes)

Chapter 1 (no changes)

Chapter 2 (pp. 16–29 become pp. 17–30)

Chapter 3 (pp. 30–42 become pp. 31–43)

Chapter 4 (pp. 43–55 become pp. 45–57)

Chapter 5 (pp. 56–66 become pp. 59–70)

Chapter 6 (pp. 67–88 become pp. 71–92)

Chapter 7 (pp. 89–103 become pp. 93–107)

Chapter 8 (pp. 104–116 become pp. 109–121)

Chapter 9 (pp. 117–130 become pp. 123–136)

Chapter 10 (pp. 131–142 become pp. 137–148)

Chapter 11 (pp. 143–157 become pp. 149–163)

Chapter 12 (pp 158–165 become pp. 165–172)

Glossary (pp.166–174 become pp. 173–181)

Appendix 1 (pp. 175–178 become pp. 183–186)

Appendix 2 (pp. 179–183 become pp. 187–191)

Appendix 3 (p. 184 becomes p. 193)

The following videos from the Synoptic Gospels class at St Francis Theological College, Brisbane (Wednesday, 2 April 2014) capture the author discussing his method as well as his personal religious investment in the project of historical Jesus research.