Today, I read Craig Blomberg’s new book, The Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Countering the Challenges to Evangelical Christian Beliefs (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016). While Blomberg is a bit to my right (I would label myself a right-leaning centrist), the book is a very well argued, well researched response to various challenges to the New Testament, such as the historicity and reliability of the Gospel of John; James as the author of the Epistle that bears his name; and various other important topics, such as Paul’s knowledge the early Jesus traditions, etc. It is just over 700 pages, so if one wants to read a good defense of the New Testament, this would be a good one to consider.
Michael Licona has a forthcoming book that touches upon some of the differences/purported inconsistencies in the canonical Gospels which promises to be an interesting read, too entitled Why Are There Differences in the Gospels?: What We Can Learn from Ancient Biography which is scheduled to come out from Oxford University Press at the end of this year.
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