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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
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
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“This book will prove to be a most effective weapon against the debunking and skeptical attitudes toward the Gospels that are so prevalent, not only in academe, but also on the street.”—Robert Barron, author of Catholicism

For well over a hundred years now, many scholars have questioned the historical truth of the Gospels, claiming that they were originally anonymous. Others have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth did not think he was God and never claimed to be divine.

In The Case for Jesus, Dr. Brant Pitre, the bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, goes back to the sources—the biblical and historical evidence for Christ—in order to answer several key questions, including:

• Were the four Gospels really anonymous?
• Are the Gospels folklore? Or are they biographies?
• Were the four Gospels written too late to be reliable?
• What about the so-called “Lost Gospels,” such as “Q” and the Gospel of Thomas?
• Did Jesus claim to be God?
• Is Jesus divine in all four Gospels? Or only in John?
• Did Jesus fulfill the Jewish prophecies of the Messiah?
• Why was Jesus crucified?
• What is the evidence for the Resurrection?

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 traditional Gospels. Above all, Pitre shows how the divine claims of Jesus of Nazareth can only be understood by putting them in their ancient Jewish context. Bible Study Bibles & Bible Study Christianity Middle East Biblical Historical Fiction
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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.

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