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For over twenty years, Craig Blomberg’s The Historical Reliability of the Gospels has provided a useful antidote to many of the toxic effects of skeptical criticism of the Gospels. Offering a calm, balanced overview of the history of Gospel criticism, especially that of the late twentieth century, Blomberg introduces readers to the methods employed by New Testament scholars and shows both the...

Peter without working any miracle, yet in 3:13–19 he seems to choose his twelve disciples all over again. John has parallels to neither of these stories but does describe a miraculous catch of fish, followed by a commissioning of Peter, in his stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances (John 21:1–19). Strauss ridicules previous attempts to harmonize all these data and concludes that the stories were ‘placed by tradition in different periods’ of Jesus’ life and invented to illustrate his calling his
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