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Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? by Robert B. Stewart, Bart D. Ehrman, Craig A. Evans

jpbaldassari's review

3.0

If you've read other Ehrman books, there is nothing new for you here. Evans' arguments are well referenced (to mostly sympathetic sources) but utterly unconvincing. He admits that if the New Testament isn't historally accurate it would shake his faith, so he is hardly impartial. He manages to dodge most of Ehrman's main points in a way that makes me think he gave a mostly scripted performance rather than responding to them. The moderator also has a dog in the fight and wraps things up with the typical "more research is needed" plea of those on the wrong side of science.