Gospel Differences & Compositional Textbooks
Training in rhetoric was part of the educational process for aspiring authors in antiquity. That process included work using compositional textbooks, also referred to as rhetorical handbooks. [...]
Review of Bart Ehrman’s book “Forged: Writing in the Name of God”…
Bart D. Ehrman, Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why The Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011), 307 pages: a Review by Michael R. Licona, March 27, 2011
A Refutation of Acharya S’s book, The Christ Conspiracy
Acharya S is a skeptic with an interest in mythology who has written a book entitled The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. This book presents an hypothesis of how Christianity came [...]
Licona Replies to Acharya: Part 2
Thank you for emailing me your brief rebuttal to my paper on your book. I have also reviewed “A Rebuttal to Mike Licona’s ‘Refutation of The Christ Conspiracy‘” on [...]
The Death of Jesus & the Defeat of Islam
The Qur'an asserts that Jesus never died. If he did not die, his death could not atone for sins and there could be no resurrection of Jesus from the dead. In this article, Mike argues that Jesus' [...]
Answering Brian Flemmings “The God Who wasn’t there”
This is a recent attempt by the hyperskeptical community to advance the thesis that Jesus never existed. In this review, Mike Licona takes a look at their case.
Licona’s Reply to Doherty
Earl Doherty recently wrote a rebuttal to Mike Licona's review of Flemming's The God Who Wasn't There.
Roundtable Discussion
The 2012 summer issue of the Southeastern Theological Review includes a roundtable discussion on the interpretation of Matthew's raised saints I proposed in my book The Resurrection of Jesus: A [...]
When the Saints Go Marching In
This is the paper I delivered at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in San Francisco. This paper addresses the present controversy stated by Norman Geisler [...]
Historians and Miracle Claims
Acknowledgement & Copyright: This article is posted on the author’s web site with the permission of Brill and the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus. This article is copyrighted. [...]
