Carpenter's Jesus is about as objective as possible, while giving every justifiable emphasis to the real and persistent forcefulness of the moral teaching of this charismatic personality.' Kathleen Nott, The Times an excellent, straightforward presentation of up-to-date scholarship ... I could find nothing with which to disagree.' David L. Edwards, Church Times Mr Carpenter has obviously made a thorough study of the latest New Testament scholarship; but he has also read the gospels with great care, pretending to himself that he was doing so without preconceptions, as a historian newly presented with the source material ... the most extraordinary achievement.' Philip Toynbee, Observer