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The empty tomb : Jesus beyond the grave / edited by Robert M. Price and Jeffery Jay Lowder.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Resurrection.
- Jesus Christ.
- Resurrection.
- Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- Christianity--Controversial literature.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 545 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- Did Jesus rise from the dead? Although nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late, legendary accounts, Christian apologists in the latter part of the twentieth century revived historical apologetics regarding the resurrection of Jesus with increasingly sophisticated arguments. A few critics have directly addressed some of the new arguments, but their response has been largely muted. The Empty Tomb scrutinizes the claims of leading Christian apologists, such as William Lane Craig and Richard Swinburne, and critiques their efforts to provide the best historical explanation for the resurrection.
- The contributors include New Testament scholars J. Duncan M. Derrett and Robert M. Price, philosophers Theodore Drange and Michael Martin, historians Richard Carrier and Peter Kirby, and leading nonthesists Keith Parsons, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, and others. They focus on the key questions relevant to assessing the historicity of the resurrection: What did the authors of the New Testament mean when they said Jesus rose from the dead? What historical evidence is needed to establish the resurrection? If there is a God, why would he resurrect Jesus? Was there an empty tomb? What should we make of the appearance stories? Apart from historical evidence, is belief in the resurrection justified?
- The Empty Tomb provides a sober, objective response to arguments offered in defense of Christianity's central claim.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The second life of Jesus / Robert M. Price
- Is there sufficient historical evidence to establish the Resurrection of Jesus? / Robert Greg Cavin
- The Resurrection as initially improbable / Michael Martin
- Why resurrect Jesus? / Theodore M. Drange
- Apocryphal apparitions : 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as a post-Pauline interpolation / Robert M. Price
- The spiritual body of Christ and the legend of the empty tomb / Richard C. Carrier
- The case against the empty tomb / Peter Kirby
- Historical evidence and the empty tomb story : a reply to William Lane Craig / Jeffrey Jay Lowder
- Taming the Tehom : the sign of Jonah in Matthew / Evan Fales
- The plausibility of theft / Richard C. Carrier
- The burial of Jesus in light of Jewish law / Richard C, Carrier
- Financial aspects of the Resurrection / J. Duncan M. Derrett
- By this time He stinketh : the attempts of William Lane Craig to exhume Jesus / Robert M. Price
- Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli on the hallucination theory / Keith Parsons
- Swinburne on the Resurrection / Michael Martin
- Reformed epistemology and biblical hermeneutics / Evan Fales.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 493-509) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 159102286X
- OCLC:
- 57344117
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