Favorite Books on the Resurrection

liamconnor · Post by **liamconnor** » Sat May 27, 2017 1:13 am

No, this is not actually a debate, but a request. But this seemed the best place to make it.

I confess I have read very few strictly anti-Resurrection books. A couple of Bart Ehrman's; Crossan's Historical Jesus; Sanders' Historical Jesus; Vermes Historical Jesus. But apart from Ehrman, the three are not apologetics against the resurrection.

On the other hand, I have read everything by C.S. Lewis; lots by G.K. Chesterton; and the relevant stuff by M. Licona; N.T. Wright; R. Bauckham; R. Hays; Theissan; Habermas; C. Blomberg etc.

I perceive an imbalance and was hoping for some suggestions by popular anti-Resurrection (I only care about the historical credentials of the resurrection, not on God in general) writers. I am most especially interested in R. Carrier's Hallucination Hypothesis, but don't want to read through every single one ($$).

Suggestions?

Zzyzx · Post by **Zzyzx** » Sat May 27, 2017 1:21 am

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rikuoamero · Post by **rikuoamero** » Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:04 pm

I suggest the Bible. It was the Bible that ultimately convinced me of the ridiculousness of the resurrection and other typical Christian claims. I mean, think about it...we have stories written down decades 'after the fact' saying that a body got up after a three day dirt nap, somehow phased through rock (or teleported), altered his appearance and, sometime after chatting with former disciples, conveniently flew off up into the sky; thus if a person of a like mind to myself wanted to examine Jesus in order to verify or falsify the claim(s)...they couldn't do that.

To this day, I have not read a single counter apologetic book. I have never read Ehrman, or Krauss, or Richard Carrier, or anyone else. It boggles my mind why you would need to read such. Just read the Bible, and actually pay attention to what they are claiming happened.

Correction - Just remembered, I did get about half way through Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion. Don't know why I didn't finish it, perhaps I'll do it one of these days...