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Historical reliability questions
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Gospels and ancient biographies (1/2 hour)
Part 2 of the interview with Scott Rae of Biola regarding Christobiography: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2020/ancient-biography-historical-jesus-part-2 Scott’s summary: How should we…
Ancient Biography and the Historical Jesus–32 minutes
Scott Rae interviews Craig Keener on the Think Biblically podcast. This is part 1 (32 min). https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2020/ancient-biography-historical-jesus-part-1
Jesus in Ancient Historians
On a popular level, some writers dismiss all evidence for Jesus as inconsequential and view him as a…
Podcast on reliability of Acts
Alisa Childers interviews me regarding the historical reliability of Acts here.
Academic review supporting article on plausibility of spirits
Today’s post will be of interest mainly to academics who allow for the possibility of spirits. I try…
What is Christobiography about?
Christobiography draws attention to an old and yet sometimes neglected insight for historical-Jesus research: in terms of recognizable…
The First Gentile Christian was from Africa—Acts 8:26-40
When we think of Christianity in Africa today, we often think of movements that began with the witness…
Reliability of Gospels (plus harder questions about John and about Christmas)
George Wood interviews Craig regarding his book Christobiography and therefore on the reliability of the Gospels. At the…
Good news about Christobiography
Usually I just post Bible studies, videos, etc. (and often silly cartoons) here, but I did want to…
Historical Jesus video interview (1 hr)
Interview with Haden Clark: one-hour summary interview: https://youtu.be/07NHoQsyWgw
Panel discussion with Craig, Bart Ehrman, Mike Licona, Rob Bowman (1 hour)
Admittedly I write better than I speak, especially extemporaneously, but this was an engaging exchange of ideas regarding…
Reliability of the Gospels article (Influence magazine)
“As criticizing other people’s religion has become more acceptable in our culture, hostile critics of Christianity are stepping…
Historical Jesus interview, conclusion (6 minutes)
Yeshaya Gruber from Israel interviews Craig. This is the final session of the interview: https://ibccourses.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Roundtable/Keener/Craig10.mp4