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 * Description of the book cover:
 * Title: The Quest of the Historical Jesus: The First Complete Edition
 * by Albert Schweitzer (Author); John Bowden (Editor)
 * Price: $39.00
 * Availability: This product will ship separately and within 10 days of the placement of your order.
 * Release Date: Friday, June 22, 2001
 * Format: Paperback, 608 pages 6.76 x 9.25 inches
 * Publisher: Fortress Press
 * ISBN: 9780800632885
 * Item No: ED002283
 * Fortress Press, P.O. Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1209

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 * The book cover can be seen on the publisher's site at http://store.fortresspress.com/store/product/2411/The-Quest-of-the-Historical-Jesus-The-First-Complete-Edition
 * Description of the book by the publisher: "A monument in historical Jesus studies

In this revised translation and retrieval of the full text of the revised German edition, Schweitzer describes and critiques eighteenth and nineteenth century attempts at retrieving the "Jesus of history" and stands at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to bring closure to the former, and to open the latter for New Testament scholarship. Schweitzer saw the problems of historiography, theology, and politics in the ways the issues were formulated — and the answers proposed — and refocused attention on Jesus' "eschatology" in a way abandoned by his predecessors. Issues of the messianic secret, the nature of the kingdom of God, and Jesus' mission are addressed. Because of the new invigorated study of Jesus in his first-century context, informed readers will desire Schweitzer as a reference point for the mistakes of the past and the possibilitites of new directions."

The use of this book cover is covered by US fair use laws because
 * 1 it illustrates the recent availability since 2001 of a the first translation into English of the 2d edition of a major book by Albert Schweitzer published in 1913 and containing a substantial critique of Arthur Drews's book the Christ Myth which is a major topic of this article on Arthur Drews. The 1913 book included 2 new chapters especially written to specifically be a critical response to the Christ myth book published in 1909, which is a major part of the subject matter of this article. The availability of the new 2001 translation is critical to researchers of the topics involved in the Arthur Drews article This article contains a lengthy discussion of the two chapters in the 1913 book published in 2001 and illustrated by the book cover presented here. The discussion of Albert Schweizer's chapters is located in the sections of this article called
 * - "Albert Schweitzer's Response in the 2d edition of the Quest (1913)",
 * - and in the following section called "The Christ Myth Theological Debate, in 1909-1913 and 1914-1927, Tabulated by Peter De Mey".


 * 2 The subject of the discussion is: Arthur Drews posited the non-historicity of Jesus Christ in his book the Christ Myth in 1909 analyzed in this article, and Schweitzer refuted Drews's thesis in his 1913 edition, made available now in 2001. This article analyzes the refutation offered by the German book of 1913 and its translation, illustrated by the image, in two major sections of the article.
 * 3 This translation is the only available text outside of Germany, and the cover is information to the reader on its availability. Knowledge of this book's recent availability is essential to reader who cannot access the original 1913 German edition.
 * 4 It is impossible to replace the image of this book cover with the uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of another book cover because there is no other edition in English anywhere of this book, and no such other book cover exists.
 * 5 This is a low-resolution image which cannot be used for any other purpose but the current illustration of the existence of the book that is discussed and analyzed in the article.