51002.1 Endnotes Was Jesus a Real Person?

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Was Jesus a Real Person?

  1. Quoted in David C. Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), 57.
  2. C. S. Lewis, The Inspirational Writings of C. S. Lewis: Surprised by Joy(New York: Inspirational Press, 1986), 122-3.
  3. “Alexander the Great: The ‘Good’ Sources,” Livius,http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z1b.html.
  4. Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (Bungay, Suffolk, UK: Fontana, 1969), 8.
  5. Jennifer Walsh, “Ancient bone box might point to biblical home of Caiaphas,” MSNBC.com, August 31, 2011,http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44347890/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/ancient-bone-box-might-point-biblical-home-caiaphas/.
  6. Rene Salm, “The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus,”American Atheist.org, December 22, 2009, http://www.atheists.org/The_Myth_of_Nazareth,_Does_it_Really_Matter%3F.
  7. Paul Johnson, “A Historian Looks at Jesus,” speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.
  8. Quoted in Josh McDowell and Bill Wilson, Evidence for the Historical Jesus (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1993), 23.
  9. Darrell L. Bock, Studying the Historical Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2002), 46.
  10. D. James Kennedy, Skeptics Answered (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1997), 76.
  11. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1966), 423. The quote is from book 20 of the Antiquities.
  12. Ibid., 379. Quotation is from the Arabic translation of Josephus’ words about Jesus because some scholars believe the Christian version, which affirmed Jesus’ resurrection as historical, was altered. However, the Arabic translation cited here was under non-Christian control, where alterations by Christians would have been virtually impossible.
  13. Bock, 57.
  14. Quoted in Durant, 281. The quote is from Annals 15:44.
  15. McDowell and Wilson, 49-50.
  16. Gary R. Habermas, “Was Jesus Real,” InterVarsity.org, August 8, 2008,http://www.intervarsity.org/studentsoul/item/was-jesus-real.
  17. Ibid.
  18. Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2004), 127.
  19. Norman Geisler and Peter Bocchino, Unshakable Foundations (Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House, 2001), 269.
  20. Habermas, “Was Jesus Real”.
  21. Quoted in Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict, vol. 1(Nashville: Nelson, 1979), 87.
  22. Habermas and Licona, 212.
  23. McDowell and Wilson, 74-79.
  24. Norman L. Geisler and Paul K. Hoffman, eds., Why I Am a Christian(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 150.
  25. Michael Grant, Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Gospels (London: Rigel, 2004), 199-200.
  26. Luke 1:1-3.
  27. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 61.
  28. William Albright, “Toward a More Conservative View,” Christianity Today,January 18, 1993.
  29. John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 352-3.
  30. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), 158.
  31. F. F. Bruce, The Books and the Parchments (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1984), 168.
  32. Paul Johnson, Ibid.
  33. Quoted in Christopher Lee, This Sceptred Isle (London: Penguin, 1997), 1.
  34. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Pocket, 1961), 428.
  35. Quoted in Bill Bright, Believing God for the Impossible (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life, 1979), 177-8.
  36. Quoted in Bernard Ramm, Protestant Christian Evidences (Chicago: Moody Press, 1957), 163.
  37. Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus through the Centuries (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), 1.
  38. Quoted in “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,” Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, 17.
  39. Quoted in Durant, 553-4.
  40. F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997), 119.
  41. Grant, 200.
  42. Paul Johnson, Ibid.
  43. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History (New York: Doubleday, 1949), 528.