By Gary R. Habermas
This book is chiefly an effort to examine the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of pre- and nonbiblical evidence for these events. The main body is devoted to a study of sources that date from before, during, and just after the New Testament, including creedal traditions recorded for the first time in the pages of Scripture . These fascinating subjects seem to be too frequently left unexplored.
The volume is divided into three sections. Part One critiques a number of recent attempts, both scholarly and popular, to undermine in various ways the historicity of Jesus.
Part Two presents the central thesis: the historical evidence for Jesus' life. Here the material is usually dated from approximately AD 30-130, or within 100 years after the death [and resurrection] of Jesus.
Part Three consists of the appendices that will hopefully provide some additionally helpful material. While the information included there is diverse, it is certainly relevant to our topic.
"This is an up-to-date, timely, and scholarly treatment of a crucial dimension of the Christian faith by one of the foremost historical apologists in America today." Norman Geisler
"The Historical Jesus is a careful, accessible analysis and critique of the various approaches to the historical Jesus. Habermas defends the historical veracity of the orthodox view of Jesus with a detailed set of convincing arguments. I don't know how someone could read this book without concluding that Jesus Christ was who the New Testament proclaimed Him to be." J. P. Moreland
In The Historical Jesus, Gary Habermas has provided us with an impressive critical overview of the historical Jesus that is at once penetratingly insightful and remarkable comprehensive. This work constitutes one of the best comprehensive refutations of the new revisionist views of Jesus to date as well as one of the best historical defenses of the evangelical view that Jesus was, and is, the Son of God. Must reading…" Gregory A. Boyd Bethel College
Paperback, 304 pages
Published, 1996 |
