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The Bedrock of Christianity: The Unalterable Facts of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can we all agree on some things about Jesus, regardless of our belief—or unbelief? Perhaps surprisingly, there is a lot upon which all scholars can agree. When surveying historical scholarship, there are certain truths about Jesus that Christians, agnostics, and skeptics must affirm. In The Bedrock of Christianity, Justin Bass shows how—regardless of one’s feelings about Christianity—there lies...

of YHWH himself? Along with their belief in the resurrection, the historical Jesus must have made claims concerning his divinity during his public ministry. To discuss the historical Jesus’ claims to divinity, however, is beyond the scope of this book. In sum, a coming Messiah, resurrection, and monotheism were all concepts known in the ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman world. Yet no one mutated them and put them together the way the early Christians did concerning Jesus. They uniquely, with unparalleled
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