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The Disciples' Inspection of the Empty Tomb
NOTE: This article requires that you have the Koine Italics truetype font Koine.ttf installed on your computer. You can download it here. The brief story of the disciples' inspection of the empty tomb (Lk 24,12.24; Jn 20,1-10) has been touted as "...
'Noli Me Tangere': Why John Meier Won't Touch The Risen Lord
John Meier is the most important and influential historical Jesus scholar now writing. [1] When he therefore declares that, as a matter of principle, he qua historian cannot and therefore will not discuss the subject of Jesus' alleged resurrectio...
Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar
In 1985 a prominent New Testament scholar named Robert Funk founded a think tank in Southern California which he called the Jesus Seminar. The ostensible purpose of the Seminar was to uncover the historical person Jesus of Nazareth using the best methods of sc...
Rediscovering the Historical Jesus: The Evidence for Jesus
Last time we saw that the New Testament documents are the most important historical sources for Jesus of Nazareth. The so-called apocryphal gospels are forgeries which came much later and are for the most part elaborations of the four New Testament gospels. T...
Dale Allison On Jesus' Empty Tomb, His Post-Mortem Appearances, and the Origin of the Disciples' Belief in His Resurrection
Dale Allison's essay "Resurrecting Jesus" is one of the most impressive pieces of work I have read in this well-ploughed field. His treatment is commendable for its candor, both about his proclivities toward belief in the physical resurrection and his phil...
Jesus' Resurrection
"Man," writes Loren Eisley, "is the Cosmic Orphan." He is the only creature in the universe who asks, Why? Other animals have instincts to guide them, but man has learned to ask questions. "Who am I?" he asks. "Why am I here? Where am I going?" Ever since the...
Reply to Evan Fales: On the Empty Tomb of Jesus
Evan Fales writes with a selfconfidence and matterofictness that belies the unconventional character of his rather maverick views on New Testament studies. Fales thinks that the gospel narratives are neither fundamentally historical accounts of the ministry of...
The Guard at the Tomb
Of the canonical gospels, only Matthew relates the intriguing story of the setting of a guard at the tomb of Jesus (Mt. 27. 62-66; 28. 4, 11-1 5). The story serves an apologetic purpose: the refutation of the allegation that the disciples had themselves stolen...
Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
Plantinga’s book is a semi-popular treatment of the conflicts, real or perceived, between science and religion, broadly construed. Because these disciplines are so broadly construed, the Christian who is interested in apparent conflicts between science a...
From Easter to Valentinus and the Apostles' Creed Once More: A Critical Examination of James Robinson's Proposed Resurrection Appearance Trajectories
Introduction Several years ago in his SBL Presidential Address, James Robinson sought to delineate three related sets of parallel trajectories stretching from a common origin in primitive Christianity to their termini in second-century Gnosticism and in creda...