Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Editions -- Biblical Texts -- Nietzsche: Editions -- Nietzsche: Individual Works -- Bible Editions -- Nietzsche: Editions -- Nietzsche: Individual Works -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: Nietzsche and the History of Atheism -- History of Atheism -- Pantheism and Atheism Controversies -- Meslier and Holbach -- Hegel and Feuerbach -- Freud and Jung -- New Atheists -- Benedict XVI and Nietzsche -- Nietzsche and Nihilism -- References -- 3: Nietzsche and the Quest for the Historical Jesus -- Ancient Examples of Critique of the "Historical" Jesus -- Celsus -- Porphyry -- Julian the Apostate -- Reimarus -- Christian Hermann Weisse -- Bruno Bauer -- Gfrörer and Daumer -- Renan -- Renan's Influence Beyond Nietzsche -- Claudel -- Alfred Loisy -- References -- 4: Nietzsche, David Friedrich Strauß, and the Post-Straussian Tradition -- Life of Strauß -- David Friedrich Strauß, Life of Jesus -- Nietzsche on D.F. Strauß -- Nietzsche and the Post-Straussian Tradition -- Eduard von Hartmann -- Wrede -- References -- 5: Nietzsche and St Paul -- Nietzsche and the Role of Paul of Tarsus (AC 41-43) -- Nineteenth-Century Scholarship -- Hermann Lüdemann on Paul -- The Quest for the Historical Paul -- Onfray's Portrait of Paul -- Problems in Nietzsche's Critique of Paul -- A Philological Defence of Paul? -- St Paul and Nietzsche -- Historical Criticism and the Dutch Radical School -- References -- 6: Methods and Nietzsche's Portrait of Christ -- Methods (AC 13 and 59) -- Nietzsche's Portrait of Christ (AC 29 and 32) -- Beweise der Kraft or "Proofs of Strength" (AC 32 and 50) -- Did Jesus Ever Exist? -- Traditional Christ-Myth Theory -- Hedonism and Anti-Christianity in Michel Onfray -- References -- 7: Nietzsche on Philology -- Nietzsche's Critique of Philology
Existential Philology -- Nietzsche's Philological Strategies -- The Textual Nature of the New Testament -- The Book of Q -- Symbolic Readings -- Kingdom of God -- Son of Man -- Textual Referencing of the "Old" Testament by the New -- Myth-Making -- References -- 8: Conclusion -- References -- Index