For over twenty years, Craig Blomberg's The Historical Reliability of the Gospels has provided a useful antidote to many of the toxic effects of skeptical criticism of the Gospels. Offering a calm, balanced overview of the history of Gospel criticism, especially that of the late twentieth century, Blomberg introduces readers to the methods employed by New Testament scholars and shows both the values and limits of those methods. He then delves more deeply into the question of miracles, Synoptic discrepancies and the differences between the Synoptics and John. After an assessment of noncanonical Jesus tradition, he addresses issues of historical method directly.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated in light of new developments with numerous additions to the footnotes and two added appendixes. Readers will find that over the past twenty years, the case for the historical trustworthiness of the Gospels has grown vastly stronger.
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The Gospels As History:
This new edition of Craig Blomberg's THE HISTORICAL RELIABILITY OF THE GOSPELS should be an essential addition to anyone's New Testament library. This book serves almost as an introduction to the study of the Gospels. Blomberg discusses form criticism, redaction criticism and other methods used for gospel interpretation. He also provides generally sensible harmonizations of apparently divergent accounts which avoid some of the overzealous attempts of harmonization of the past. Blomberg persuasively... more info
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels:
It's required reading for the NT 1 course at Covenant Seminary so I picked it up to accompany the free course download at http://www.covenantseminary.edu/worldwide/en/NT220/NT220.asp . Haven't read it all yet but so far it's a keeper.
good for it's type of book.:
Here is a book that works towards making a case for the New Testament gospel accounts as being historically reliable. This is an apologetic work by a conservative christian new testament scholar. This book contains intelligent and plausible content on it's subject matter. It is certainly worth an honest read and studied consideration. The author has produced a fine conservative "take" on the subject. With this being so, I wouldn't want this to be the only perspective one gets on the subject.
A foolish book without any merit:
The gospel accounts have ZERO historical reliability. After the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD, a great deal of material was added to the gospel of Mark to make it appear that Jesus had predicted the event. Then, the Pharisees re-wrote much of that account to make it support their belief in (a) exorcism and demonic spirits, (b) angels and (c) a general resurrection of the dead on the Day of Judgment. The version we have (which appears with minor changes under the names of Mark, Matthew and Luke)... more info
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