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Resources on the Historical Jesus and the historicity of the New Testament
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History and the Christian Faith
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Is Biblical History Knowable?
http://suite101.com/article/is-biblical-history-knowable-a159343
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The New Testament documents: Are They Reliable?
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“… a considerable number of scholars during the last half-century have pioneered what came to be known as the ‘new look on John,’ recognizing a far greater level of historical reliability and a Jewish milieu for the deeds and teachings attributed to Jesus than the first half of the twentieth century had acknowledged.“
http://www.4truth.net/fourtruthpbbible.aspx?pageid=8589952783
— Crain Blomberg, Ph.D. (New Testament, Aberdeen University), professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary
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The Gospels:
Historical Reliability of the Gospels
https://bible.org/series/historical-reliability-gospels
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Reading the Gospels as History
http://www.lastseminary.com/nt-historical-reliability/
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Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable?
http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/gospelsreliableprint1.htm
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http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/gospelsreliableprint2.htm
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http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/gospelsreliableprint3.htm
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Are the Gospels a Reliable Eyewitness Account of the Life of Jesus?
http://pleaseconvinceme.com/2012/are-the-gospels-a-reliable-eyewitness-account-of-the-life-of-jesus/
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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
http://wap.bible.org/series/historical-reliability-gospels
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Inerrancy and the Gospels:
A God-Centered Approach to Challenges of Harmonization
http://www.frame-poythress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/PoythressVernInerrancyAndTheGospels.pdf
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Recent Perspectives on the Reliability of the Gospels
http://www.equip.org/articles/recent-perspectives-on-the-reliability-of-the-gospels/
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59 Confirmed or Historically Probable Facts in the Gospel of John
http://truthbomb.blogspot.com/2012/02/59-confirmed-or-historically-probable.html
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The Author of the Gospel of John
http://sententias.org/2013/01/19/gospel-of-john/
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The Circumstantial Case For John’s Authorship
http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2013/01/the-circumstantial-case-for-johns-authorship.html
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Reading the Gospels as History
http://www.lastseminary.com/nt-historical-reliability/
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Mark’s Gospel Is An Early Memoir of Peter
http://pleaseconvinceme.com/2012/marks-gospel-is-an-early-memoir-of-peter-2/
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Why Evangelicals Doubt Historical-Critical Theories About the Gospels
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“… through the mouths of Jesus’ enemies it can be established that he performed deeds that appeared miraculous…“
www.bethinking.org/bible-jesus/the-sweet-words-of-an-enemy.pdf
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The Synoptic Problem
http://bible.org/article/synoptic-problem
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Ancient and Modern Historiography: What Are The Gospels, Greco-Roman Biographies?
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Why I Believe The New Testament Is Historically Reliable
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The Historical Reliability Of The New Testament
http://www.whyfaith.com/docs/The%20Historical%20Reliability%20of%20the%20New%20Testament.pdf
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The Historicity of the New Testament
http://www.bethinking.org/bible-jesus/the-historicity-of-the-new-testament.pdf
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Wasn’t the New Testament written hundreds of years after Christ?
http://carm.org/was-new-testament-written-hundreds-years-after-christ
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Facts for Skeptics of the New Testament
http://www.equip.org/articles/facts-for-skeptics-of-the-new-testament/
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Assumptions in Historical-Jesus Research:
Using Ancient Biographies and Disciples’ Traditioning as a Control
www.lastseminary.com/nt-historical-reliability/Assumptions%20in%20Historical%20Jesus%20Research.pdf
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Can Historians Prove Jesus Rose from the Dead?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2w6G5i6Y0A
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RESOURCES ON THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND HISTORICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
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Oral Tradition:
Informal Controlled Oral Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_tradition_bailey.html
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A Look at the Jesus Story, Oral Tradition and Eyewitness Memory
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A Look at Oral Tradition/The Orality Phase of the Jesus Story
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The Jesus Tradition and Notebooks
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2012/03/the-jesus-tradition-and-notebooks/
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Oral Tradition: a reason to trust the gospels
http://publicchristianity.org/library/oral-tradition-a-reason-to-trust-the-gospels#.UHjHJ1Hhc2m
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“… we need to take serious heed of the interface between the oral and written forms. More specifically, we should take seriously the possibility of notebooks being used to aide in the remembrance and transmission of Jesus’ teachings.”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2012/03/the-jesus-tradition-and-notebooks/
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The New Testament writers conspired together to gain power and influence?
Why the conspiracy theory does not work.
http://carm.org/new-testament-writers-conspired-together-gain-power-and-influence
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Undesigned Coincidences in the New Testament
“… these sorts of coincidences are unlikely to be the work of a forger.“
http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/09/01/undesigned-coincidences/
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http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/09/15/undesigned-coincidences-part-2-2/
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http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/09/29/undesigned-coincidences-part-3/
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http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/10/15/undesigned-coincidences-part-4/
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http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/11/03/undesigned-coincidences-part-5/
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http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/2013/11/16/undesigned-coincidences-part-6/
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Why We Should Expect Witnesses to Disagree
http://www.thepoachedegg.net/the-poached-egg/2013/11/why-we-should-expect-witnesses-to-disagree.html
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Extra-Biblical Sources:
What do we know about Jesus – from non-biblical sources?
http://www.provethebible.net/T2-Divin/D-0201.htm
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Jesus in Extra-Biblical Sources
http://www.apologeticscanada.com/2013/12/13/jesus-in-extra-biblical-sources/
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Is there Extra-Biblical Proof of Jesus
http://pleaseconvinceme.com/2013/is-there-extra-biblical-proof-of-jesus/
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Josephus
“The preponderance of evidence… strongly suggests that Josephus did indeed mention Jesus [twice] in [Jewish Antiquities].“
http://crossfaithministry.org/josephusandjesus.html?vm=r&s=1
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Josephus’ Writings and Their Relation to the New Testament
https://bible.org/article/josephus%E2%80%99-writings-and-their-relation-new-testament
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Josephus and Jesus: By Paul L. Maier, The Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University
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Did Josephus Refer to Jesus?
A Thorough Review of the Testimonium Flavianum
http://www.bede.org.uk/Josephus.htm
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Secular References to Jesus: Josephus
http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/josephus.html
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Non biblical accounts of New Testament events and/or people
http://carm.org/non-biblical-accounts-new-testament-events-and-or-people
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