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Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent years, historians and biblical scholars have been in active pursuit of the historical Jesus. The Jesus Seminar and similar efforts to place Jesus within his historical context have relied heavily on extra-biblical documents, since many historians consider the Bible propagandistic and biased. Darrell Bock, however, believes that the Gospels’ account of Jesus deserves further examination....

there was a stage of reporting that came before the recording of these events. That stage involved the oral “delivery” of the presentation of these events by “eyewitnesses and ministers of the word.” Here is the tradition base, grounded in eyewitness reports made to the church. They stood at the base of the accounts that Luke notes in v. 1 and at the base of his own work as well. Luke seeks to join this tradition of reporting about Jesus. He does so as an innovator, because only he will produce a
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