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The Case for Jesus

The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

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The Case for Jesus

By: Brant Pitre, Robert Barron - afterword
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
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Over the past hundred years, scholars have attacked the historical truth of the Gospels and argued that they were originally anonymous and filled with contradictions. In The Case for Jesus, Brant Pitre taps in to the wells of Christian scripture, history, and tradition to ask and answer a number of different questions, including: If we don't know who wrote the Gospels, how can we trust them? How are the four Gospels different from other Gospels, such as the lost Gospel of "Q" and the Gospel of Thomas? How can the four Gospels be historically true when there are differences between them? How much faith should be put into these writings?

As The Case for Jesus will show, recent discoveries in New Testament scholarship as well as neglected evidence from ancient manuscripts and the early church fathers together have the potential to pull the rug out from under a century of skepticism toward the apostolic authorship and historical truth of the traditional Gospels.

©2016 Brant Pitre (P)2016 Random House Audio Bible Study Bibles & Bible Study Christianity Middle East Biblical Historical Fiction

Critic Reviews

"I've lost count how many times I've heard critics say the Gospels are late, anonymous, and untrustworthy sources that don't prove the divinity of Christ. At last there is a book that refutes these claims with scholarly rigor while still being an enjoyable read for lay persons." (Trent Horn, author of Answering Atheism)
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Beautifully read and beautifully written. The arguments are compelling.

I love the idea that Jesus wasn’t “harmless”. You don’t crucify harmless.

Jesus is the ultimate force of change and this book gets straight to the point about so many of the arguments about the Gospels, their age, who wrote them:

It reinforced my belief and I feel empowered to argue back about some of the lies we hear every day.

Remember, we don’t deny his name and we call him Lord, if we can show one person this because of this book, how wonderful that would be.

A must buy if you want to counter the lies

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I enjoy Dr Brant Pitre’s work so much, and this was no exception. What would have made it even greater is if he was the narrator, that would have made it perfect!

Brilliant work!

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A scholarly work written for the non academic. I know that sounds like a contradiction but read it and see. The author knows his material internally and provides a powerful account of why the gospels should be read as their names suggest, that is the four biographies written by the apostles or the disciples of the apostles .

It is compelling and, if one comes to it with an open heart, definitive in the case for Jesus as God.

The historical Christ is God after all

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It is typical Christian account of the historicity of Jesus. All of the usual assumptions are made, everything written is totally true, the Gospels are written by the correct apostles, that the Gospels are 4 separate history's written by four separate apostles. For me this is terrible misunderstanding of the New Testament. Mathew is a copy Mark 90%, Luke is 85% of Mark, John is a mishmash of the previous three. So really there is only one witness Mark, the author can't see this and therefore confuses the genre of the gospel narratives as history instead of mytho history. The author wants the reader to except everything at face value as true and makes the typical Christian apologetic, "possibly, therefore probably". The author is constantly reaching for his "proofs". Little comparison is made with actual historical documents, or comparative religions of the time so the author only has a Christian idea religion of the period, which is extremely disappointing. The author has little understanding of comparative writers such as Josephus or Philo whose writings contributed to the writing of the gospels and also ensures later dates for gospel authorship. This is an extremely poor case for the historical Jesus. Not worth reading.

Poor understanding of Genre

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