What Can We Know About Jesus? Resources on the Historical Jesus and Historicity of the New Testament

Given that Jesus mythers won’t be going away (as long as the internet exists), and people think it is really cool to say “I am not sure if Jesus existed”, I hope these resources help.

Reliability of the Gospels: The Book of Acts

External Evidences for the Truth of the Gospels by Dr. Timothy McGrew

•F. David Farnell, “The Synoptic Gospels in the Ancient Church: A Testimony to the Priority of Matthew’s Gospel,” The Master’s Seminary Journal 10.1 (Spring 1999): 53-86

Recent Perspectives on the Reliability of the Gospels: Gary Habermas

Dr. Tim McGrew Lectures on Alleged Historical Errors in the Gospels of Luke & John

Who wrote the Gospels? Dr. Timothy McGrew

Peter Williams Lecturing on The Reliability of the Gospels

3 Things The Gospel Authors Would Have Never Invented About Jesus

Archeology and the Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Peter S. Williams

Anthony R. Cross, “Historical Methodology and New Testament Study,” Themelios 22:3 (April 1997): 28-51.

James M. Arlandson: Historical Reliability of the Gospels

Why the Lost Gospels Did Not Make the Canonical Cut by Michael Bird

Craig Blomberg: Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him And Why It Matters

84 Confirmed Facts in the Last 16 Chapters of the Book of Acts

59 Confirmed or Historically Probable Facts in the Gospel of John

The Historical Reliability of John by Craig Blomberg

The Historical Reliability of Acts: Support from Extra-Biblical Primary Sources

Sources Outside the New Testament: “There are no contemporaries who wrote about Jesus”: The Abuse of Arguments from Silence (thanks to Cadre for these)

Did Josephus Refer to Jesus, A Thorough Review of the Testimonium Flavianum (Highly Recommended) CADRE member Christopher Price demonstrates the partial-authenticity of Josephus’ first reference to Jesus and discusses what we can know about the historical Jesus from Josephus. A revised and extended version of this article is avaible in the book, Shattering the Christ Myth, discussed below.

When an Argument from Silence Becomes Utterly Meaningless by Craig Blomberg

Josephus: A Double Dose of the Messiah J.P. Holding defends the autheniticity of both of Josephus’ references to the historical Jesus.

Testimonium Flavianum: Josephus’ Reference to Jesus: Early Christian Writings

Josephus’ Writing and Their Relation to the New Testament Dr. Greg Herrick reviews the value of Josephus’ writings for the study of Jesus and the New Testament.

Nero’s Scapegoats: Cornelius Tacitus J.P. Holding argues that Roman Historian Tacitus’s reference to Jesus provides strong evidence of historicity.

Early Historical Documents on Jesus Christ The New Advent Encyclopedia chronicles the early references to the historical Jesus, including Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources.

Extrabiblical References to Jesus before 200 a.d. The Chrisitan Thinktank’s Glen Miller discusses the second-century pagan historian Thallus’ reference to an eclipse that contemporary Chrisitan writer Africanus believed was a reference to the darkness that descended during Jesus’ crucifixion.

Josephus and Jesus: By Paul L. Maier, The Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University

Evidence for Jesus as a Miracle Worker

The Miracles of Jesus: A Historical Inquiry

The Credibility of the Miracles of Jesus by Craig Blomberg

Ancient Evidence for Jesus from Non-Christian Sources

Did Jesus Really Perform Miracles? Written by Daniel Morais and Michael Gleghorn

The Existence of Jesus/Answering Jesus Mythers and Parallelomania

Did Jesus Even Exist?-The Problematic Argument from Silence

Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 1 by Glenn Peoples

Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 2 by Glenn Peoples

◾Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 3 Glenn Peoples

A fight they can’t win: The irreligious assault on the historicity of Jesus

The Jesus Process: Maurice Casey: Mythicism: A Story of Bias, Incompetence and Falsehood