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The Search for Jesus is a journalist's exploration of the historical figure of Jesus. Peter Jennings goes to the Holy Land and searches for clues to who Jesus was, what we know about his childhood, brief adult life and the circumstances of his death.

Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a "cold case": it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide...

A fact-filled historical examination of Jesus that considers the political and cultural factors that contributed to his trial, conviction and crucifiction. Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. The author takes readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political...

"The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus??who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism...

Traces the face of Christ in the textual tapestry of the Old Testament and also outlines the pattern of God's design for Israel as it is lived out in the story of Jesus.

Combines the four Gospel stories of Matthew, Mark, Luke and john into a unified account and guides readers on a faith journey through the Four Evangelists' testimonies of the life of Jesus Christ (From book jacket).

Journalist Strobel interviews scholars regarding the accuracy of the Gospels and the historicity of Jesus Christ.

Presents the second volume entitled "Jesus and the Victory of God" in a five-volume series on the origins of Christianity. Focuses on Jesus as a first-century apocalyptic prophet living within the politics of first-century Judaism while "integrating the data of Gospel traditions in both original and surprising ways."

Prominent theologians, scientists, historians and philosophers discuss the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus, and other fundamental tenets of Christianity.