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The Case For The Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

by Lee Strobel

c. 2007

This is a continuation or a more indepth look at the story Strobel wrote in The Case For Christ.

In this work, he takes on the skeptics and the challengers such as the Jesus Seminars and the proponents for the alternative gospels as well as atheists and agnostics. And so, he’s back on the road looking at the historical facts just about Jesus, His life, death, burial and resurrection this time.

He finds things such as Josephus (the first century historian) noting three friends of his who were crucified. He managed to have them taken down prematurely and given the best medical care available but still two of them died. He finds that many of the documents that were suppose to be genuine were in fact forgeries including one document that was probably invented by a historian for the attention and laugh factor.

When it is all said and done, Strobel finds a historical Jesus who holds up under scrutiny to be the same as He has always been.

Well worth the read. Would make a wonderful study book for group study.