Section 73
SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES
Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008. A seminal work on the Gospel writers’ use of original eyewitness testimony, with an updated examination of the role of oral tradition in biblical times.
Blomberg, Craig. The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. 2nd ed. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press Academic, 2007. For more on this book and Blomberg’s response to supposed Bible errors, see also http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2008/03/26/interview-with-craig-blomberg/.
Dickson, John. Life of Jesus: Who He Is and Why He Matters. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010. An engaging look at the life of Jesus in his first-century environment from a historian of ancient history.
Ehrman, Bart, and N. T. Wright. “ ‘Dialogue Between Bart Ehrman and N. T. Wright: Is Our Pain, God’s Problem?’ ” Available online at http://bit.ly/bundles/ehrmanproject/3.
Ehrman Project. Various biblical scholars respond to Bart Ehrman’s challenge to the credibility of Christianity and reliability of the Scriptures. Available online at http://ehrmanproject.com/index.
Evans, Craig A. Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008. New Testament scholar Evans looks at the biblical and ancient sources that provide a portrait of Jesus and the arguments made by The Da Vinci Code and the Jesus Seminar.
Kitchen, K. A. On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Annotated ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. An examination of the correspondence between archaeology and the text of the Old Testament by an emeritus professor of Egyptology and archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
Lennox, John. Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011. Although the focus of this work looks at the origins of the universe from scientific and biblical data, Lennox, professor of mathematics at Greens College, Oxford, provides great insight for approaching biblical literature and scientist theories and evidence.
Witherington, Ben. “Review of Forged (by Bart Ehrman).” Available online at http://bit.ly/bundles/ehrmanproject/4. See also his lecture “Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up,” available online at http://www.patheos.com/community/bibleandculture/2011/02/28/will-the-real-jesus-please-stand-up-a-vertical-jesus-in-a-world-of-horizontal-analysis/.