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At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, I read a paper titled The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy Needs a Facelift. The paper was well-attended and was followed [...]

Historians of Jesus have very often made use of the criteria of authenticity. That is, they grant more weight to those reported items that are attested by eyewitnesses and/or unsympathetic [...]

A number of you have asked me to respond to Lydia McGrew’s lengthy critique of my book Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn From Ancient Biography. Now that I’ve been able [...]

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Most biblical scholars and historians hold that the investigation of a miracle report lies outside of the rights of historians acting within their professional capacity. In this essay, I [...]

Are the Gospels historically reliable? Authors of ancient historical literature had objectives for writing that differed somewhat from those of modern historians. Consequently, the literary [...]