Although scholars have for centuries studied the historical Jesus -- since Reimarus in the late 1700s -- only recently has this discipline been challenged and even enriched by archaeological research. This book specifically asks and answers these questions: What does archaeology tell us about the life of Jesus? How and in what ways do archaeological discoveries help us reconstruct and understand the life and teachings of Jesus, son of Joseph?It is an interesting topic, and the thirty-one contributors to this volume, after the customary overviews, definitions, discussions of methodology, etc., jump right into explorations of the specific place-names cited in the four Gospels, more general places like synagogues and houses, as well as concepts and ideas that may have been afoot during the first century C.E., like resurrection, eschatology, and exorcism.