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Endnotes – Are the Gospels Reliable?

  1. Josh McDowall, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999), 42-43.
  2. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 86.
  3. Metzger, 38-39.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Will Durant, Caesar and Christ, vol. 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 555.
  6. William F. Albright, Recent Discoveries in Biblical Lands (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1955), 136.
  7. William F. Albright, “Toward a More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993, 3.
  8. John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1976), 352.
  9. McDowell, 33-68.
  10. Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 225.
  11. John Wenham quoted in Gary R. Habermas, “Why I Believe the New Testament is Historically Reliable,” Why I am a Christian, eds Norman L. Geisler & Paul K. Hoffman (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 149.
  12. J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 134-157.
  13. Geisler and Turek, 256.
  14. Gary R. Habermas, “Why I Believe the New Testament is Historically Reliable,” Why I am a Christian, eds Norman L. Geisler & Paul K. Hoffman (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 150.
  15. Durant, 563.
  16. McDowell, 36-38.
  17. Metzger, 34.
  18. John A. T. Robinson, Can We Trust the New Testament? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), 36.
  19. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publishers, 1981), 9.

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