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Dr. Craig Blomberg, author of The Historical Reliability of the Gospels.
Blomberg’s books include Jesus and the Gospels; Interpreting the Parables; How Wide the Divide?; and commentaries on the gospel of Matthew and 1 Corinthians.
Introduction to Biblical Interpretation.
Reasonable Faith
Jesus und...
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John is the only gospel about which there is some question about authorship.”
“The name of the author isn’t in doubt—it’s certainly John,” Blomberg replied. “The question is whether it was John the apostle or a different John.
Anyone who reads all four gospels will immediately recognize that there are obvious differences between the synoptics and the gospel of John,
“Karen Armstrong,
A History of God,
book of Acts, which was written by Luke.
Acts ends apparently unfinished—Paul is a central figure of the book, and he’s under house arrest in Rome.
With that the book abruptly halts. What happens to Paul? We don’t find out from Acts, probably because the book was writ...
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Bruce, F. F. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
France, R. T. The Evidence for Jesus.
BRUCE M. METZGER, PH.D.
including The New Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content; The Text of the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; Manuscripts of the Greek Bible; Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament; Introduction to the Apocrypha; and The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
Why is it that our Bibles contain Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but many other ancient gospels—the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of the Egyptians, the Gospel of Truth, the Gospel of Nativity of Mary—were excluded?
like the Gospel of Peter and the Gospel of Mary—
the Gospel of Thomas, which was among the Nag Hammadi documents found in Egypt in 1945, claims it contains ‘the secret words which the living Jesus spoke and Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down.’ Why was it excluded by the church?”
Bruce, F. F. The Canon of Scripture.
Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament.
EDWIN M. YAMAUCHI, PH.D.
Institute for Biblical Research
The Stones and the Scriptures; The Scriptures and Archaeology; and The World of the First Christians.
“On the whole, the gospels are excellent sources,” he replied. “As a matter of fact, they’re the most trustworthy, complete, and reliable sources for Jesus.
The Verdict of History,
Gary Habermas
Bruce, F. F. Jesus and Christian Origins outside the New Testament.
Habermas, Gary. The Historical Jesus.
McDowell, Josh, and Bill Wilson. He Walked among Us.
GREGORY A. BOYD, PH.D.
Christianity Today
Jesus
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Letters from a Skeptic,
God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict.
The Quest Study Bible,
Woodland Hills Church,
gospel called Secret Mark.
the Cross Gospel.
outlandishly legendary material.
The Real Jesus,
Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson,
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Real Jesus.
Wilkins, Michael J., and J. P. Moreland, eds. Jesus under Fire.
The Christology of Jesus
BEN WITHERINGTON III, PH.D.
Jesus the Sage; The Many Faces of the Christ; The Jesus Quest; Jesus, Paul, and the End of the World; and Women in the Ministry of Jesus
Reasonable Faith William Lane Craig
