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The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

The question of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection has been repeatedly probed, investigated, and debated. And the results have varied widely. Perhaps some now regard this issue as the burned-over district of New Testament scholarship. Could there be any new and promising approach to this problem? Yes, answers Michael Licona. And he convincingly points us to a significant deficiency in...

for the large differences in the portraits that result. Because the historian’s objective is often to discover a Jesus palatable to her own tastes, this pushes the deciding factor behind the historian’s portrait to horizon rather than method. She finds what she was looking for. Therefore, attention to method may reduce the amount of control a horizon has on a historian’s research, but it alone is inadequate.90 2. The historian’s horizon and method should be public. It is certain that at least portions
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