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The Case Against The Case for Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes Lee Strobel ROBERT M. PRICE 2010 American Atheist Press Cranford, New Jersey ISBN10: 1-57884-005-8 ISBN13: 978-1-57884-005-2 American Atheist Press P.O. Box 158 Cranford, NJ 07016 Voice: (908) 276-7300 FAX: (908) 276-7402 www.atheists.org Copyright © 2010 by American Atheist Press, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Published February 2010 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Price, Robert M., 1954-The case against the case for Christ: a New Testament scholar refutes Lee Strobel / Robert M. Price. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-57884-005-2 (alk, paper) ISBN-10: 1-57884-005-8 (alk paper) 1. Strobel, Lee, 1952-Case for Christ. 2. Christianity—Controversial literature. 3. Jesus Christ—Person and offices. 4. Jesus Christ—Historicity. I. Title. BT203.S7737 2010 232.9’08–dc22 2009054035 Dedicated To My Generous Friend David F. Parks Ebook versions by John F. Felix, [email protected] Contents INTRODUCTION My Own Investigation PART ONE EXAMINING THE WRECKAGE Chapter One The Utter Lack of Eyewitness Evidence The Gospels Are Not Biographies Enter Craig L. Blomberg Good Question, Bad Answer The Gospels: Blind Dates The Conz After-Apostle Agendas Dear and Glorious Paramedic Synoptic Claim Bake Every Mother’s Son Chapter Two Testing the Evidence of the Gospels Do the Gospels Stand Up to Scrutiny? The Intention Test: The “Intentional Fallacy”? Despising Prophesying 1. The Intention Test and the Intentional Fallacy 2. The Ability Test: Orality — Or Reality? We’re the Telephone Company: We Don’t Care. We Don’t Have to. 3. The Character Test: Your Cheatin’ Art To the Death! 4. The Consistency Test: Harmonizing and Homogenizing 5. The Bias Test: A Biased Test? 6. The Cover-up Test: “Except to Be Exposed” 7. The Corroboration Test: Imaginary Confirmation The Adverse Witness Test: Mumbling beneath the Muzzle? Chapter Three The Manuscript Evidence Do We Have What the Evangelists Originally Wrote? Bruce Metzger, Reader’s Digest Version A Note on a Scrap Chapter Four No Corroborating Evidence No Reporters Covered the Jesus Beat Flubbed Opportunities Is No News Good News? Darkest Africanus Pilate the Pussycat? Bragging Rites? Chapter Five The Stones Keep Mum How Biblical Archaeology Digs Up a World without Jesus No Nazareth Acts and Accuracy Taking Leave of Your Census Ascent of the Christ, Descent of the Dove Sanhedrin Sitcom Three Deaths Perils of Pauline Conversion Apples Don’t Corroborate Oranges Chapter Six A Butt Load of Evidence The Jesus Seminar and Mainstream Biblical Research 1. We must separate the Jesus of history from the Christ of faith. 2. The Synoptic Gospels are closer to the historical Jesus than the Gospel of John. 3. Mark was written before Matthew and Luke and was the basis for both. 4. The hypothetical source “Q” explained Matthew’s and Luke’s common tradition not found in Mark. 5. The non-eschatological Jesus who speaks in aphorisms and parables must be liberated from the eschatological Jesus, whom the Church constructed. 6. The contrast between the oral culture of Jesus and the print culture of later times (Jesus only spoke in short, memorable, oft- repeated phrases, never longer discourse). 7. The Gospels are now assumed to be narratives in which the memory of Jesus is embellished by mythic elements that express the Church’s faith in him, and by plausible fictions that enhance the telling of the Gospel story for the first-century listeners who knew about divine men and miracle workers firsthand. Alien Assumptions I Belong to Apollonius History versus Mystery Out of the Prayer Closet PART TWO USING JESUS AS A VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY Chapter Seven The Identity Crisis Did Jesus Memorize the Nicene Creed? Chapter Eight The Psychology of Heresy Must Apologists Be Crazy When They Say Jesus Believed He Was God? Chapter Nine The Piffle Evidence Could a Finite Jesus Correspond in any Way to an Infinite God? Ladies and Gentlemen … He — re’s DAV-ey! Goofy Gospel Exegesis A Hell of a Thing The Inconvenience of Slavery Chapter Ten The Finger-Paint Evidence A Mess of Messianic Prophecy Dim Intimations of the Obvious Chapter Eleven Dead Man Walking The Swoon Theory Black Sheep of Apologetics Straw Man Theory Follow the Yellow Brick Road Chapter Twelve The Evidence of the Empty Argument Was Jesus’ Body Ever Even in a Tomb? Holy Ghost Evangelist The Man from Best Disciple Town Multiple Attestation? Shall We Join the Ladies? Mark’s Passion Source X Marks the Spot Chapter Thirteen The Appearance of Evidence Was Jesus Seen in Line at Burger King (of Kings)? Can I Get a Witness? Finding Five Hundred Making Jacob into James? Making Saul into Paul? Giving ’em Hell, then Heaven Apparent Appearances Chapter Fourteen The Circumcision Evidence Is a Supernatural Resurrection the Best Explanation for Folks no Longer Trimming their Sons’ Foreskins? CONCLUSION The Failure of Apologetics BIBLIOGRAPHY A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z Scripture Index Subject Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Leading New Testament scholar Robert M. Price has taken umbrage at the cavalier manner in which Rev. Lee Strobel has misrepresented the field of Bible scholarship in his book The Case for Christ. Price exposes and refutes Strobel's arguments chapter-by-chapter. In doing so he has occasion to wipe ou
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