Isn’t The Gospel Of Thomas A Legitimate Source About The Historical Jesus?

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Isn’t The Gospel Of Thomas A Legitimate Source About The Historical Jesus?” in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

Will The Real Jesus Please Stand Up? A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan (ed., Paul Copan)

Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or Figment? A Debate Between William Lane Craid and Gerd Ludemann (eds., Paul Copan and Ronald Tacelli)

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus vol. 1 (John P. Meier)

Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents The Historical Jesus (eds., Michael Wilkins and J.P. Moreland)

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Why Were Certain Texts Arbitrarily Excluded From The New Testament Canon?

The following books are recommended for further reading in the chapter “Why Were Certain Texts Arbitrarily Excluded From The New Testament Canon?” in How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless , by Paul Copan.

The Canon of Scripture (F.F. Bruce)

Christ and the Bible (David Wenham)

“The Biblical Canon” by David Dunbar, in Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon (eds., D.A. Carson and John Woodbridge)

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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels – Books Recommended by James Sire

In his book Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All, James Sire recommends the following books on The Historical Reliability of the Gospels:

Is the New Testament Reliable?, by Paul Barnett

The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, by Craig Blomberg

The Evidence for Jesus, by James D. G. Dunn

The Evidence for Jesus, by R. T. France

I Believe in the Historical Jesus, by I. Howard Marshall

Christ and the Bible, by John Wenham