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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...

much that Jesus had said’.25 On the other hand, Robert Mounce suggests that it would have been ‘quite natural’ for Jesus to have gathered together into summary form his own references to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.26 In that event, the language in Acts may be an abbreviation pointing to the theological significance of baptism as ‘a transference of the rights of possession’ to Jesus.27 Many examples could be listed under this heading. Chapter 2 already noted
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