The Life of Jesus
by Ernest Renan
of the French Academy

Ernest Renan



  TABLE OF CONTENTS
dedication
To the pure Soul of my sister Henriette
introduction
In which the sources of this history are principally treated
I
 Place of Jesus in the history of the world
II
 Infancy and youth of Jesus, his first impressions
III
 Education of Jesus
IV
 The order of thought which surrounded the development of Jesus
V
 The first sayings of Jesus. The ideas of a divine father and of a purer religion. First disciples
VI
 John the Baptist. Visit of Jesus to John, and his abode in the desert of Judea. Adoption of the baptism of John
VII
 Development of the ideas of Jesus respecting the Kingdom of God
VIII
 Jesus at Capernaum
IX
 The disciples of Jesus
X
 The preaching on the lake
XI
 The Kingdom of God conceived as the ingeritance of the Poor
XII
 Embassy from John in prison to Jesus. Death of John. Relation of his school with that of Jesus
XIII
 First attempts on Jerusalem
XIV
 Intercourse of Jesus with the Pagans and the Samaritans
XV
 Commencement of the legends concerning Jesus. His own idea of his supernatural character
XVI
 Miracles
XVII
 Definitive form of the ideas of Jesus respecting the Kingdom of God
XVIII
 Institutions of Jesus
XIX
 Increasing progression of enthusiasm and of exaltation
XX
 Opposition to Jesus
XI
 Last journey of Jesus to Jerusalem
XXII
 Machinations of the enemies of Jesus
XXIII
 Last week of Jesus
XXIV
 Arrest and trial of Jesus
XXV
 Death of Jesus
XXVI
 Jesus in the tomb
XXVII
 Fate of the enemies of Jesus
XXVIII
 Essential character of the work of Jesus




The Life of Jesus is the fist book of The History of the Origins of Christianity
the fist chapter of the second book, the Apostles, is about the ressurection of Jesus:

I Formation of beliefs relative to the ressurection of Jesus, the apparitions at Jerusalem
     
  History of the Origins of Christianity
   
I Life of Jesus
II the Apostles
III Saint Paul
IV The Antichrist
V The Gospels
VI The Christian Church
VII Marcus-Aurelius
     
     
     
  Ernest Renan : biography (in French)
  la vie de Jésus : original version (in French)
  Prayer on the Acropolis
  French-English dictionary online