More Than a Carpenter (19 page)

1. Millar Burrows,
What Mean These Stones? The Significance of Archeology for Biblical Studies
(New York: Meridian Books, 1956), 52.

2. William F. Albright,
Recent Discoveries in Bible Lands
(New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1955), 136.

3. William F. Albright,
Christianity Today,
no. 7 (18 January18 1963): 3.

4. Sir William Ramsay,
The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), 222.

5. John A. T. Robinson,
Redating the New Testament
(London: SCM Press, 1976).

6. Simon Kistemaker,
The Gospels in Current Study
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1972), 48–49.

7. A. H. McNeile,
An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament
(London: Oxford University Press, 1953), 54.

8. Paul L. Maier,
First Easter: The True and Unfamiliar Story in Words and Pictures
(New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 122.

9. William F. Albright,
From the Stone Age to Christianity,
2nd ed. (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1946), 297–98.

10. Jeffery L. Sheler,
Is The Bible True?
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999), 41.

11. Dan Brown,
The Da Vinci Code,
231.

12. Philip Jenkins,
Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 83.

13. As quoted in Philip Jenkins’s
Hidden Gospels,
98–99
.

14. Chauncey Sanders,
Introduction to Research in English Literary History
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 143 ff.

15. F. F. Bruce,
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1964), 16.

16. Bruce Metzger, quoted in Lee Strobel,
The Case for Christ
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998), 60.

17. Personal correspondence from Dan Wallace, January 6, 2003.

18. Jacob Klausner, quoted in Will Durant,
Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization,
pt. 3 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944), 557.

19. Sir Frederic Kenyon,
The Bible and Archaeology
(New York: Harper & Row, 1940), 288–89.

20. Stephen Neill,
The Interpretation of the New Testament
(London: Oxford University Press, 1964), 78.

21. Craig L. Blomberg, “The Historical Reliability of the New Testament,” in William Lane Craig,
Reasonable Faith
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), 226.

22. J. Harold Greenlee,
Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1954), 16.

23. As quoted in J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, Daniel B. Wallace,
Reinventing Jesus,
215.

24. Ibid., 109.

25. John Warwick Montgomery,
Where Is History Going?
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1969), 46.

26. Louis R. Gottschalk,
Understanding History
(New York: Knopf, 1969), 150.

27. John McRay, quoted in Strobel,
The Case for Christ,
97.

28. Lynn Gardner,
Christianity Stands True
(Joplin, MO.: College Press, 1994), 40.

29. Norman L. Geisler,
Christian Apologetics
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1988), 316.

30. F. F. Bruce,
The New Testament Documents,
33.

31. Lawrence J. McGinley,
Form Criticism of the Synoptic Healing Narratives
(Woodstock, MD: Woodstock College Press, 1944), 25.

32. David Hackett Fischer,
Historian’s Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought,
quoted in Norman L. Geisler,
Why I Am A Christian
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 152.

33. Robert Grant,
Historical Introduction to the New Testament
(New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 302.

34. Will Durant,
Caesar and Christ,
557.

35. Gottschalk,
Understanding History,
161.

36. Eusebius,
Ecclesiastical History,
bk. 3, chap. 39.

37. Irenaeus,
Against Heresies,
3.1.1.

38. Gary Habermas,
The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ
(Joplin, MO: College Press, 1997), 224.

39. Joseph Free,
Archaeology and Bible History
(Wheaton, IL: Scripture Press, 1964), 1.

40. F. F. Bruce, “Archaeological Confirmation of the New Testament,”
Revelation and the Bible,
ed. Carl Henry (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1969), 331.

41. A. N. Sherwin-White,
Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 189.

42. Clark H. Pinnock,
Set Forth Your Case
(Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1968), 58.

43. Douglas R. Groothuis,
Jesus in an Age of Controversy
(Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1996), 39.

Chapter 7: Who Would Die for a Lie?

1. Although the New Testament does not record the deaths of these men, historical sources and long-standing tradition confirm the nature of their deaths.

2. Richard Bauckham,
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006).

3. Flavius Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jew
s, xx, 9:1.

4. J. P. Moreland, quoted in Lee Strobel,
The Case for Christ
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998), 248.

5. Edward Gibbon, quoted in Philip Schaff,
History of the Christian Church
(Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), chap. 3.

6. Michael Green, “Editor’s Preface” in George Eldon Ladd,
I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1975), vii.

7. Blaise Pascal, quoted in Robert W. Gleason, ed.,
The Essential Pascal,
trans. G. F. Pullen (New York: Mentor-Omega Books, 1966), 187.

8. J. P. Moreland, quoted in Strobel,
The Case for Christ,
246–47.

9. Michael Green,
Man Alive!
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1968), 23–24.

10. Quoted by J. N. D. Anderson, “The Resurrection of Christ,”
Christianity Today
(29 March 1968).

11. Kenneth Scott Latourette,
A History of Christianity
(New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937), 1:59.

12. N. T. Wright,
Jesus: The Search Continues.
Transcript of this video can be read by searching for
Jesus: The Search Continues
at the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute Web site: www.johnankerberg.org.

13. Paul Little,
Know Why You Believe
(Wheaton, IL: Scripture Press, 1971), 63.

14. Herbert B. Workman,
The Martyrs of the Early Church
(London: Charles H. Kelly, 1913), 18–19.

15. Harold Mattingly,
Roman Imperial Civilization
(London: Edward Arnold Publishers, 1967), 226.

16. Tertullian, quoted in Gaston Foote,
The Transformation of the Twelve
(Nashville: Abingdon, 1958), 12.

17. Simon Greenleaf,
An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in the Courts of Justice
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1965), 29.

18. Lynn Gardner,
Christianity Stands True
(Joplin, MO.: College Press, 1994), 30.

19. Personal correspondence from Tom Anderson, January 6, 2003.

20. J. P. Moreland,
Scaling the Secular City
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1987),137.

21. William Lane Craig, quoted in Strobel,
The Case for Christ,
220.

Chapter 8: What Good Is a Dead Messiah?

1.
Encyclopedia International
(New York: Grolier, 1972): 4:407.

2. Ernest Findlay Scott,
Kingdom and the Messiah
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1911), 55.

3. Joseph Klausner,
The Messianic Idea in Israel
(New York: Macmillan, 1955), 23.

4. Jacob Gartenhaus, “The Jewish Conception of the Messiah,”
Christianity Today
(13 March 1970): 8–10.

5.
Jewish Encyclopedia
(New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906): 8:508.

6. Millar Burrows,
More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1958), 68.

7. A. B. Bruce,
The Training of the Twelve
(Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1971), 177.

8. Alfred Edersheim,
Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1960), 29.

9. George Eldon Ladd,
I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1975), 38.

Chapter 9: Did You Hear What Happened to Saul?

1.
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
s.v. “Paul, Saint.”

2. Jacques Dupont, “The Conversion of Paul, and Its Influence on His Understanding of Salvation by Faith,”
Apostolic History and the Gospel,
ed. W. Ward Gasque and Ralph P. Martin (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), 177.

3.
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
s.v. “Paul, Saint.”

4. Ibid.

5. Kenneth Scott Latourette,
A History of Christianity
(New York: Harper & Row, 1953), 76.

6. W. J. Sparrow-Simpson,
The Resurrection and the Christian Faith
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1968), 185–86.

7. Dupont, “The Conversion of Paul, and Its Influence on His Understanding of Salvation by Faith,”
Apostolic History and the Gospel,
76.

8. Philip Schaff,
History of the Christian Church
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1910): 1:296.

9.
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
s.v. “Paul, Saint.”

10. Archibald McBride, quoted in
Chambers’s Encyclopedia
(London: Pergamon Press, 1966): 10: 516.

11. Clement, quoted in Philip Schaff,
History of the Apostolic Church
(New York: Charles Scribner, 1857), 340.

12. George Lyttleton,
The Conversion of St. Paul
(New York: American Tract Society, 1929), 467.

Chapter 10: Can You Keep a Good Man Down?

1. Alexander Metherell, quoted in Lee Strobel,
The Case for Christ
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998), 195–96.

2. John Dominic Crossan,
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
(New York: HarperOne, 1995), 145.

3. George Currie,
The Military Discipline of the Romans from the Founding of the City to the Close of the Republic.
An abstract of a thesis published under the auspices of the Graduate Council of Indiana University, 1928, 41–43.

4. A. T. Robertson,
Word Pictures in the New Testament
(New York: R. R. Smith, 1931), 239.

5. Arthur Michael Ramsey,
God, Christ and the World
(London: SCM Press, 1969), 78–80.

6. James Hastings, ed.,
Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
(New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1916): 2:340.

7. Paul Althaus, quoted in Wolfhart Pannenberg,
Jesus—God and Man,
trans. Lewis L. Wilkins and Duane A. Priebe (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968), 100.

8. Paul L. Maier, “The Empty Tomb as History,”
Christianity Today
(28 March 1975): 5.

9. Josh McDowell,
Evidence That Demands a Verdict
(San Bernadino, CA: Campus Crusade for Christ International, 1973), 231.

10. David Friederick Strauss,
The Life of Jesus for the People
(London: Williams and Norgate, 1879): 1: 412.

11. J. N. D. Anderson,
Christianity: The Witness of History
(London: Tyndale Press, 1969), 92.

12. John Warwick Montgomery,
History and Christianity
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1972), 78.

13. Jeffrey Jay Lowder, “Historical Evidence and the Empty Tomb Story” in
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave,
Jeffrey Jay Lowder and Robert Price, ed. (Amherst, MA: Prometheus, 2005), 267.

14. As quoted in Lee Strobel,
The Case for the Real Jesus,
146.

15. Stephen T. Davis, “The Counterattack of the Resurrection Skeptics,” in
Philosophia Christi,
vol. 8, no. 1 (2006): 55.

16. Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd,
The Jesus Legend
(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2007), 142.

17. T. N. D. Mettinger,
The Riddle of Resurrection: “Dying and Rising Gods” in the Ancient Near East
(Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2001), 221.