The Historical Reliability of the Gospels

by Blomberg, Craig L.

• ISBN13: 9780830828074
• ISBN10: 0830828079
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

For over twenty years, Craig Blomberg'sThe Historical Reliability of the Gospelshas 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.

Author Biography

Craig L. Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary to Patmos.

Table of Contents

Traditional approaches to the reliability of the Gospels	p. 24
Newer methods in Gospel study	p. 48
Miracles	p. 104
Contradictions among the Synoptics?	p. 152
Problems in the Gospel of John	p. 196
The Jesus-tradition outside the Gospels	p. 241
Final questions on historical method	p. 296
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