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| Abbreviations | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is a Gospel | |
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| Ancient Biography | |
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| Gospels and Apostles-A Key Combination | |
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| Mark's Innovation: Framing the Ministry and the Passion | |
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| Matthew and Luke Improve on the Model | |
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| Note: Alternate Suggestions for Genre | |
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| Note: The Four-Gospel Canon | |
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| Books and Believers in Early Christianity | |
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| Early Christianity as an Explosion of Texts | |
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| How Books Were Written | |
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| How the Gospel Texts Have Come Down to Us | |
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| When Texts Differ: What the Text Critic Contributes | |
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| The Septuagint: Scripture Cited in the Gospels | |
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| Marcion and the Idea of a Second-Century �Canon� | |
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| The Quest for Sources | |
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| From a Synopsis: Comparing the Synoptic Gospels | |
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| From Q and the Gospel of Thomas to Sayings Gospels | |
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| Q | |
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| Is it a Gospel? | |
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| Strata in Q | |
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| The Community Responsible for Q | |
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| Form Criticism | |
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| The Shape and Function of Sayings and Stories | |
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| Sayings Material | |
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| Parables and Similitudes | |
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| Miracle Stories | |
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| The Passion Narrative | |
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| The Gospel of Peter and the Development of the Passion Narrative | |
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| Reading Mark's Gospel | |
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| From Beginning to End: Mark's Narrative Shape | |
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| Literary Features of Mark's Narrative | |
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| Characters in the Gospel | |
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| Jesus in Mark's Gospel | |
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| The Community Implied in Mark's Narrative | |
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| Endings Added to the Gospel of Mark | |
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| A Secret Version of Mark? | |
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| Reading Matthew's Gospel | |
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| From Beginning to End: Matthew's Narrative Shape | |
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| Literary Features in Matthew's Narrative | |
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| Characters in the Gospel | |
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| Jesus in Matthew's Gospel | |
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| The Community Implied in Matthew's Narrative | |
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| Jewish Christian Gospel Traditions | |
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| Reading Luke's Gospel | |
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| From Beginning to End: Luke's Narrative Shape | |
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| Literary Features of Luke's Narrative | |
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| Characters in the Gospel | |
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| Jesus in Luke's Gospel | |
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| The Community Implied in Luke's Narrative | |
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| Mary Traditions and Other Infancy Gospels | |
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| The Reception and Revision of the Gospel of Luke | |
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| Gospels from the Second and Third Centuries | |
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| A Mixture of Traditions: Oral and Written | |
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| Apocryphal Gospels and Reading the Synoptics | |
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| Gnostic �Gospels� from the Second and Third Centuries | |
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| The Gospel of Judas | |
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| P. Berol. 22220: The �Gospel of the Savior� | |
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| The Question of Genre Revisited | |
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| Index of modern authors | |
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| Index of subjects | |
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| Index of ancient sources | |