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Dr. Darrell Bock is the author of over 20 books including Breaking the Da Vinci Code, Jesus in Context, and Studying the Historical Jesus. Learn what we can know about Jesus from history.

The Historical Jesus
Could you prove that Jesus existed without using the Bible? Can you name three non-christian ancient authors who mention Jesus?

Related: Watch the first session of this course for free right here.

Christian study the Bible. Historians study history. Or so the story goes. Dr. Darrell Bock quickly puts this myth to rest in the very first lecture of this course.

Believers often feel like they’re gripping the edges of their faith like a rock climber. In this course you’ll learn just how reliable the Biblical picture of Jesus is. You won’t feel like you’re clinging anymore. By the end you’ll feel a renewed confidence. There’s no need to cower from skeptics.

Secularists try to pull Christianity into a neutral discussion of the facts. But the Christians keep winning so the secularists pull harder. Mix biased skepticism with a little time and you get denial. It’s like baking a cake.

Sessions
Non-Christian Sources and Historical Jesus Studies
Three Quests for the Historical Jesus
Three Models for Historical Jesus Studies
Seven Criteria of Authenticity and the Burden of Proof
Early Transmission of Jesus’ History
Three Models of Orality in Historical Jesus Studies
Sources and Their Critical Use in Historical Jesus Discussions
The Nature of Second Temple Judaism in the Time of Jesus
The Characteristic Jesus and the Ancient Bíos Genre
The Infancy Material: Census, Virgin Birth, and John the Baptist
The Ministry of John the Baptist
The Kingdom of God and How it Works
Translating Jesus: From the Gospels to Paul
Second Temple Judaism and the Intensification of the Torah
The Twelve Disciples and Jesus’ Relationship to Sinners
Miracles and Exorcisms of Jesus
The Messianic Secret of Jesus
Jesus’ Intended Audiences
The Demands of Being a Disciple of Jesus
An Overview of the Final Week of Jesus’ Life
How Jesus Saw Himself: Titles and Self Reference
The Un-Triumphal Entry of Jesus
The Cleansing of the Temple
Controversies During Jesus’ Final Week
The Last Supper
The Jewish Examination of Jesus
Jesus Before Pilate
The Resurrection of Jesus

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    • Ramrunner on 17/08/2018 - 12:14
      +1

      Wow I can't remember exactly what comment I made but it was very similar to yours (basically this is not a bargain I THINK - hard to say when I've commented on all of gto posts) but the moderator just withdrew MY negative vote whereas the others still stand.

      "Inappropriate use of negative vote"

      Confused?

      Mind you I can't find my comment in my history either so I can't even check what I said.

      I'd really like this site to at least notify WHAT was inappropriate, WHY is was inappropriate so I can learn instead of just seemingly deleting?

    • inamberclad on 17/08/2018 - 12:54

      from your comment, would it be correct to assume you are calling christianity -> a hateful religion?

  • Rayve on 15/08/2018 - 11:22
    +1

    We should all start following the Bible to the letter. I for one will plan on stoning to death anyone that works on the Sabbath, unruly teenagers and all those witches I see offering to read my aura. Then I will also get to own slaves and beat them as much as I want (so long as they do not die in a few days) in line with the orders of this 'loving' God. Wouldn't the world be so much better if we all actually followed these bronze age religions like any truly moral person should?

    Oh, and as for any claims of extra-Biblical evidence of Jesus - that is clearly a lie since it is not supported by any accepted, genuine evidence - you know those pesky facts, and even if there were mentions in some obscure text of an itinerant rabbi stirring up minor trouble in the middle east he would simply be one of many who were known around that time and it would in no way provide any evidence of any miraculous claims.

    • [Deactivated] on 15/08/2018 - 11:33
      +1

      Smash the heads of the babies of your enemies, is a favorite.
      As god condones raping women, can catholics, christians or jews object to raping nuns?
      How can you teach this fiction to children, or believe it from a book as an adult?

      • EightImmortals on 15/08/2018 - 11:39

        Given some of the things they teach to kids these days the Bible is WAY less harmful. :)

        • gto21 on 15/08/2018 - 11:45

          He's assuming the word of the Psalmist is a command by God.

        • EightImmortals on 15/08/2018 - 11:50
          +2

          @gto21: I know what he's assuming. Actually he's assuming lots of things and that's OK by me. You and I know better. :)

        • iratepirate on 15/08/2018 - 12:07

          @EightImmortals: "You and I know better."

          That's about the most incorrect thing I've read on here. Your imaginary friend that lives in the sky is no more valid than anyone else's.

        • EightImmortals on 15/08/2018 - 12:08
          +2

          @iratepirate: Sweet, so who's your imaginary friend?

        • gto21 on 15/08/2018 - 12:13

          @iratepirate: If it is not more valid than anything else. As a result, you have no ground to refute what other believes. Since what you believe is not more valid.

        • iratepirate on 15/08/2018 - 12:30

          @gto21: I don't have an issue when your imaginary friend tells you that you can't do something that is lawful. I do have an issue when your imaginary friend tells me I can't do something that is lawful.

        • gto21 on 15/08/2018 - 12:37

          @iratepirate: I have no problem that you have an issue with that.

    • gto21 on 15/08/2018 - 11:35

      Why the vast majority of Christians don't it? Maybe because your exegesis is wrong? I'm not going to debate you since it seems you already made up your mind. If your sincere consider this course while it's still free, as it will address some misconception on Christianity. https://www.credocourses.com/product/christian-apologetics-1…

    • Major Mess on 18/08/2018 - 18:32

      I wonder how many menstruating woman sneak into church these days?
      I bet there is the odd one legged man, or dodgey testical, at least a few times a year.

  • retiredfeline on 15/08/2018 - 11:41

    After we have finished it, we are slippery.

  • lplau on 15/08/2018 - 12:23
    +1

    Jesus they don't come with the disks….. sigh……

  • yanman on 15/08/2018 - 12:27
    +2

    Not a deal without the original price.

  • PainToad on 15/08/2018 - 12:49

    Would be interested to see if posts related to other religions would receive as much hate. Or is it acceptable to be bigoted towards Christianity, whilst other religions are untouchable in the modern PC world?

    Let’s be honest, all religions have crazy ideas (and violent encouraging) if you selectively look for them in their teachings. Almost all religions also aim to convert non-followers.

    The hypocrisy of The Left is always hilarious.

    • gto21 on 15/08/2018 - 13:06

      I thought about the same thing. I expect some will go quiet when it comes to certain religion. I can think of a couple of religion they will be too scared to criticize. I don't mind constructive criticism. I think everyone has the right to criticize religion including Christianity. The vast majority of comments I'm ignoring since very few people are asking honest question. When I answer, even when they can't refute me they keep arguing. No point replying to someone who already made up their mind. And a lot of them are the same people in my two previous deals.

    • TheDukeOfNukem on 15/08/2018 - 17:54
      -2

      I hate all religions equally, but I definitely believe Christianity, Catholicism, and the other more mainstream religions deserve more bashing than they currently get.

      I'm all for saying no to Islam, or at the very least not being as tolerant as we are of it. I personally think it should be as simple as "We in Australia don't wear a burka, if you don't like that, feel free to not come here" and that right there is not a PC comment, I (profanity) hate the crazy ass PC left.

      But by the same merit, I'm an Atheist and against all religions, and just because Christians don't often go around committing acts of terror, it doesn't mean they didn't in the past and I'm not just gonna accept them because they haven't burned a which in a couple hundred years. Look at the shit Cardinal Pell and co. did, shit is pretty much always terrible when it comes to religion.

      And for that reason, I will say (profanity) no to all religions. But it's an all or nothing approach to me, unlike these regressive leftist nutjobs, if you wanna say Christians are (profanity), you must also not be afraid to say Islam is (profanity).

      PS I'm not delusional, I am aware Islam is more of a hot topic / risk now than Christianity, and if I had to choose one to outlaw, that would be it. All I'm really trying to say is I agree with you, the left is hypocritical and pathetic nine times out of ten, but just because Islam is the biggest religious threat to western society at the moment, it doesn't make Christianity and Catholicism innocent by default, they've both done some very (profanity) up shit too, and to be honest, until some proof comes along that the floating cloud diety of your choice actually exists in any form, I think religion all together should just be outlawed. It doesn't bring everyone together, it brings a subsect of people together, who then are by default against the other subsects of people.

      • EightImmortals on 16/08/2018 - 07:57

        Damn. I wrote a really great reply to this post and it disappeared when I hit the 'reply' button. :(

        So I'l just post a link instead. It's from a Catholic mob but worth a read as it addresses some of your comments quite well IMO.

        http://www.ncregister.com/blog/astagnaro/atheist-myth-no-one…

        I'm not sure that the person about to be executed by a Marxist or Maoist atheist is assuaged in the knowledge that his evil, merciless executioner isn't killing him because he's an atheist but rather because he believes in an atheist philosophy and only coincidently doesn't believe in God. Multiply this by all 152 million dead at the hands of atheists in the 20th and 21st century—a carnage which has yet to abate—makes the above claim perfectly worthless. In addition, we have more than sufficient proof that atheists killed in the name of atheism as in the case of the Soviet Union's Society of the Militant Godless, Mao Zedong's Red Guard, the Enlightenment's Reign of Terror, Abimael Guzmán's Shining Path, atheist Napoleon's wars and Plutarco Elias Calles democide of Mexican Catholics during the Cristero Wars.

      • gto21 on 16/08/2018 - 09:24

        One reason you said no to religion is that of bad things they go in the past and present. Are you consistent in your view? Non-religious people do horrible things if you're consistent you should be against everyone. Which mean you have an issue with everyone.

        • TheDukeOfNukem on 16/08/2018 - 09:39
          +1

          Non religious people don't do horrible things because of their belief though.

          If someone is horrible, they are horrible and there's not much you can do about it.
          If someone is horrible because of their belief system, then you have every right to ridicule that belief system.

        • gto21 on 16/08/2018 - 09:59
          -1

          @TheDukeOfNukem: Everyone has a belief whether it's religious or not, including atheist. An example: someone might think his race is superior and they need to wipe out everyone else. We have this which is not necessarily based on religion but on the belief of one race is superior to another. And people did horrible things because of that. So your statement is wrong.

        • EightImmortals on 16/08/2018 - 11:30
          -1

          @TheDukeOfNukem: Re-quoted for emphasis "I'm not sure that the person about to be executed by a Marxist or Maoist atheist is assuaged in the knowledge that his evil, merciless executioner isn't killing him because he's an atheist but rather because he believes in an atheist philosophy and only coincidently doesn't believe in God."

          So I'm not sure what you are trying to argue here? (some) Religious people have done horrible things and that 'has' to be because of their belief system but when non-religious people do horrible things it's just because they are horrible people?

          Or are you saying that horrible atheists don't have a 'belief system' and therefore atheism is not to blame.

          Not sure which one, but either case is demonstrably untrue as you cannot reconcile the horrible things that religious people have done to the Christ of the Bible or to Buddha (Mohammed might be an exception). But it is at least logically consistent that if one believes in no Gods then it follows that there are NO consequences or moral prerequisites incumbent upon us so we are free to do whatever we think we can get away with. And of course your chances of getting away with stuff vastly increases with the amount of power one has. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Bush, Obama etc Obviously not all atheists are horrible people and neither are most religious people. As I keep saying, the one common denominator in all of your problems is 'us'.

        • inamberclad on 16/08/2018 - 12:32

          @TheDukeOfNukem: surely that's a load of rubbish?! people do horrible (or nice) things BECAUSE of their beliefs! did i misinterpret your comment?

    • Major Mess on 18/08/2018 - 18:37
      +1

      I guarantee to be equal opportunity. Hindus and the caste system, bring it on. Muslims, and their being 300 years behind where christianity is in regard to enlightenment, their desire to kill, and oppress women - yep, them too.

      Buddhist are a little harder, in that the original contains no supernatural. But there are perversions that have done, and do a fair bit of killing and persecuting.

  • Vombatidae on 15/08/2018 - 14:47
    +1

    Another bible-thumping "deal"
    seems like we are getting these several times a week now…. Not a deal

    • PainToad on 15/08/2018 - 16:09

      How is it thumping? No one made you read it. No one made you click on it. No one made you comment. You could of easily kept on scrolling. Not like this deal came knocking on your door or approached you on the street.

      This is no more thumping than any other deal posted by a rep. The only difference is your reaction and prejudice.

      • Vombatidae on 15/08/2018 - 16:59

        It's using the ozbargain platform to further a cause. By your logic I could setup a website handing out free "The Green Party rules, vote green" books as that is a "deal".
        I'm only prejudice against non-bargains :D

  • FabMan on 30/08/2018 - 06:53
    -1

    Poorly written fiction

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