""Front cover ""; ""Half title ""; ""Full title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents ""; ""Diagrams ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: A Paradigm Shift in Historical Jesus Historiography""; ""Chapter 1: Historiography beyond Positivism and Postmodernism ""; ""Chapter 2: An Analysis of Current Historical Jesus Research ""; ""Chapter 3: A New Road for Historical Jesus Research: Cultural Bundubashing ""; ""Chapter 4: In the Beginning Was a Social Personage and Cultural Artifacts ""; ""Part 2: A Model of Shamanic Figures""
""Chapter 5: The Shamanic Complex: A Social-Type Model """"Chapter 6: Components of a First-Century (Shamanic) Worldview ""; ""Chapter 7: The Shamanic Complex and Ancient Societies ""; ""Part 3: Jesus and the Shamanic Complex ""; ""Chapter 8: Baptism and Spirit-Possession Experiences ""; ""Chapter 9: Healing, Exorcism, and the Control of Spirits ""; ""Chapter 10: Teaching, Preaching, and Prophetic Activities""; ""Chapter 11: Constituting a Galilean Shamanic Figureby Means of Infancy Narratives ""; ""Chapter 12: Afterlife for Someone Like a Galilean Shamanic Figure ""
""Conclusion: Someone Like a Galilean Shamanic Figure? """"Abbreviations""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Back cover ""