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The Resurrection of Jesus

A New Historiographical Approach

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The Resurrection of Jesus

By: Michael R. Licona
Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
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The question of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection has been repeatedly probed, investigated, and debated. And the results have varied widely. Perhaps some now regard this issue as the burned-over district of New Testament scholarship. Could there be any new and promising approach to this problem?

Yes, answers Michael Licona. And he convincingly points us to a significant deficiency in approaching this question: our historiographical orientation and practice. So he opens this study with an extensive consideration of historiography and the particular problem of investigating claims of miracles. This alone is a valuable contribution.

But then Licona carefully applies his principles and methods to the question of Jesus' resurrection. In addition to determining and working from the most reliable sources and bedrock historical evidence, Licona critically weighs other prominent hypotheses. His own argument is a challenging and closely argued case for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ. Any future approaches to dealing with this "prize puzzle" of New Testament study will need to be routed through The Resurrection of Jesus.

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Licona goes into a lot of detail for what is the bedrock of evidence about Jesus, and I think lands somewhere that most (if not pretty much all) scholars of history will agree. He then analyses a number of different hypotheses suggested by more sceptical scholars and compares them to the resurrection hypothesis. I think he seemed more confident in the resurrection hypothesis than he necessarily should have been, but I do think he successfully demonstrated it was much stronger than the competing hypotheses. I would have liked it to be compared to some hypotheses that didn't make such wild ad-hoc claims or use so much speculative psycho-history, but I do believe that he was trying to reference the most well-received and scholarly works. I think perhaps what I would have liked to have seen is more of an engagement with something like Dale Allison's work - one side of which is addressed briefly in the Appendix. Overall, however, a very well thought out and well researched work that enables non-scholars to trace out and compare the arguments.

Good review of the evidence

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