Jesus Matters offers a readable, reliable, and current guide to the state of research into Jesus, with wise and perceptive comments and abundant information and recommendations for further reading and exploration. Professor den Heyer describes the problems of investigating the life of Jesus, traces modern research into the life of Jesus from the beginning to the present day, takes the findings of Qumran and Nag Hammadi into full account, discusses scholarly accounts of the life of Jesus and those given in more popular bestsellers, and pays particular attention to works that have recently appeared in the United States and Britain.