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NT313 Jesus and the Witness of the Outsiders is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evans’ study of the historical Jesus has led him to seek all kinds of ancient sources related to Christ. This course is a result of that study, focusing on the evidence from extrabiblical sources and seeing what they reveal about the life of Christ. Examine works by Roman and Jewish writers, and even invocations of Jesus’ name in pagan incantations, and discover what these works can tell us about...

“(Christians, followers of a gross superstition,) sing a hymn in honor of Christus, as in honor of a god.” And here this time he spells Christus, C-H-R-I-S-T-U-S. Now, what is interesting about this is the larger context of the passage. He talks about these Christians that he has arrested and interrogated. He’s discovered that they get up early in the morning before sunup; that they gather together and sing a song; that they take vows not to steal anything, not to embezzle, not to commit fornication;