How well does the New Testament stand up to historical scrutiny? This new edition of a classic book contains fresh material comparing the Koran and the New Testament, exploring the nature of history writing, and more on the resurrection.

For people who doubt whether the message of Christianity in the Bible is a true record of history, or want to know how strong are the historical foundations of the faith, this is the book to get you started. In the style of a sympathetic teacher, and with the conviction of a scholar whose feet are always on the ground, Paul Barnett guides the reader through what we do and don’t know about the history of Jesus Christ. He examines how confident we can be in the Bible as an historical record, focusing on the superiority of New Testament data compared with any other historical work. It becomes quite apparent that if any historical document is a reliable transmission of the past, the New Testament is doubly so.

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