Preface : no-body homicides -- The fuse and the fallout : Jesus without the New Testament -- Jesus, the average ancient? : the cultural fuse -- Jesus, the copycat savior? : the spiritual fuse -- Jesus, the mistaken messiah? : the prophetic fuse -- In the fullness of time : Jesus arrives -- Jesus, the unfounded fiction? : the dissemination fallout -- Jesus, the dreary deity? : the imagination fallout -- Jesus, the illiterate? : the education fallout -- Jesus, the science denier? : the exploration fallout -- Jesus, the one and only? : the exaltation fallout -- Postscript : the unlikeliest of suspects : Jesus, person of interest.