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Title: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Four Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf ISBN: 0-8254-2747-9 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent Critical Apparatus -- Antiquated Analysis
Comment: Simon Greenleaf was an excellent jurist and no mean Bible scholar. He set forth an excellent apparatus for the evaulation of the testimony of the evangelists. That apparatus is still used today in courtrooms across America to decide the weightiest of issues. His critical apparatus is the rules of evidence. Unfortunately for the modern student, he applied that apparatus to a set of presuppositions which were fine for their age but which are thoroughly outmoded by modern scholarship. His conclusions are suspect, not because of faulty logic but because of faulty data.
I would like to see a modern-day Greenleaf apply the rules of evidence to the currently accepted data on the Gospels. Keeping in mind the Jesus Seminar's caveat "Beware of finding a Jesus entirely congenial to you," I doubt that a modern Greenleaf would find a Jesus who was entirely congenial to any modern school of thought. I suspect, however, that the modern Greenleaf would find a Jesus much closer to the Savior Jesus of evangelical Christianity than to the Cynic Sage Jesus of liberal scholarship.
This volume isn't exactly what one would expect from the title on the cover. The book is not an extended analysis of the Gospels, but a collection of essays, only one of which (Greenleaf's "Examination of the Testimony of the Evangelists") makes any attempt at rigorous analysis of the Gospels. Greenleaf adds a second essay on "An Account of the Trial of Jesus," and this slim volume is rounded out by "The Jewish Account of the Trial of Jesus" by Joseph Salvador, "The Trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate" by M. Dupin, and "The Various Versions of the Bible" by Constantine Tischendorf.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Testimony Of The Testimony
Comment: This is an excellent book for all types of people, Christians and non-Christian alike. It is especially good for those who believe they are the intellectual type. I work in the legal field, and so I found this book to be a clincher for even the most hard hearted skeptics. If they would just set their bias aside and truly absorb what this author is saying, there won't be any doubt that the evidence of the Evangelist is reliable.
This is a book I challenge my friends and coworkers to read because we deal with evidence people submit daily, seeking a benefit through this government agency. We are legally bound to recognize all applicants are "prima facie" eligible until proven otherwise through testimony and evidence. And so, we are trained to recognize what makes good evidence and what makes bad evidence. The Gospels are good evidence, unimpeachable.
I have actually gone back and purchased additional copies of this book so that I can give them out to people who need to hear it from a legal scholar with impeccable credentials. It's a very easy book to read. It can be digested in a matter of two or three hours, and its inexpensive as well, costing less than ten bucks.
Simon Greenleaf lays everything out so well, it is truly easy to follow his logic. If you are a skeptic about the Bible, doubting its authenticity, this book will explain to you why you should accept the Gospel accounts as fact, because their testimony is clear. Jesus is God incarnate as the Gospels attest. If you read this book, then this knowledge about Jesus is now in your head, and I pray that God the Holy Spirit will place it in your heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lies briefly rebuked
Comment: The fact that the resurrection stories are claimed to contradict each other may seem so to someone who does not take the time to actually look at the evidence. One needs to not only look at the Biblical text and find that they are simply subtly different, as one would find in any group relaying a similar story. We also have to look at the culture of the time and other historical works - that are purely works of historians. Authors such as Josephus and a few other historians from the time period and the surronding regions. When one fully looks at the evidence, Biblical, historical, archaeological, scientific, and philosophical this book is greatly upheld.
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Title: Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison ISBN: 0310295610 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 27 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ by Gary R. Habermas ISBN: 0899007325 Publisher: College Press Publishing Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann by William Lane Craig, Ronald Tacelli, Paul Copan, Gerd Ludemann ISBN: 0830815694 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict Fully Updated To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians Today by Josh McDowell ISBN: 0785243631 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.97 |
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Title: The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig L. Blomberg ISBN: 0877849927 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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