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The presence of the past. Two portrayals of the Jesus who was. Recovering the Jesus who was. Beyond reconstruction -- The permanent particular : Jesus the Jew. The Jesus quest and the Jewish Jesus. The Jew Jesus was (and was not). The Gentiles stake in Jesus' Jewishness -- The embodied future : Jesus the teacher. The kingdom of God as rectifying power. The King as Father. The embodied future in perfect tense -- The fractured prism : Jesus' death and the living God. Galilee and Jerusalem. The living God Jesus trusted. The Golgotha hermeneutic -- The authorizing judge : Jesus in the moral life. Beyond Jesus' ethics. The judge who authorizes. For Jesus' sake.