Christ From Death Arisen Book

Foreword     ix
Preface     xiii
Differing Hermeneutics     1
Philosophical Tools or Literary Criticism?     1
Picking and Choosing     2
Redaction versus Inerrancy     9
Methodology     12
Seeking the Christ through History
Preconceptions Against Miracles     19
Doctrines of Life after Death before Jesus     19
Certain Prejudices     22
The Denial of Miracles and Fallacies of Reasoning     24
Explaining Away the Divine     31
Layers of Meaning?     31
The Enlightenment     36
Using Historical Movements to Explain Christ in History     38
Historical Criticism and Inerrancy of Biblical Terms     42
An Awareness History Cannot Provide     46
From Historical Criticism to Literary     49
Methods of Literary Critique     49
Bultmann or History?     54
Higher Critics and Their Lack of Evidence     56
Historically Reliable     57
Eyewitness Verifiability     57
Dating the New Testament Documents     62
Oral Tradition or the Written Word?     66
Contemporaneity and the Creed in 1 Corinthians     68
Archeology and Historical Reliability     70
Historical Reliability and the Synoptics     73
Secular Testimony and the New Testament     75
Ancient Manuscripts and Federal Rules of Evidence     79
A Narrative Retelling
Pilate and Caiaphas     83
The Place Called Gabbatha ([Gamma alpha beta beta alpha theta alpha])     83
The Romans and the Jews     85
Pilate's Early Years     87
Pilate and the Jews     88
Gospel Accounts of Pilate     91
Caiaphas     91
Caiaphas' Priestly People     94
Caiaphas with His Thoughts     96
The Trial of the Christ     99
The Opposition Gathers     99
Passover ([characters not reproducible], Pesach)     102
A Hosanna People     104
Judas Iscariot     106
The Passover Day and Meal with Christ     108
The Passover and Kiddush ([characters not reproducible])     110
Into the Garden Called the Olive Press     113
Judicial Violations in the Sanhedrin Trial of Christ     114
Pilate: Magistrate without Evidence     117
Murder on a Cross     125
The Swoon      125
History of the Punishment Crucifixion     127
Roman Crucifixion     129
The Crucifixion and Murder of Christ     130
For the Affirmative
From Death Arisen     139
Another Fallacy in Hume against Miracles     139
The Resurrection: What Level of Knowledge?     140
Types of Witnesses     142
Change of Ways     147
Those Who Knew the Eyewitnesses     149
More Evidence?     150
Evidence and Inarguability     154
Afterword     157
Notes     159
Texts from the Canon     229
Index of Names     241
Index of Topics     247
About the Author     251