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"This is not just another response to the issues raised in the novel and the film. It is a serious, detailed, yet eminently accessible refutation of the exaggerated skepticism of bona fide scholars like Bart Ehrman or Robert Price and of the outright misinformation in frequently-believed pseudo-scholarship circulating on the web or via little-known publishing houses." (Craig L. Blomberg Apologia Report 2006-11-01)"Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a first-hand look at the primary evidence for Christianity's origins. Reinventing Jesus shows believers that it's okay to think hard about Christianity, and shows hard thinkers that it's okay to believe. . . .While there are other books being written to defend the historical Jesus of the New Testament, and the authenticity and trustworthiness of the New Testament writings, Reinventing Jesus is one of the better ones read by this reviewer. The authors cover such a breath of material that it is hard to find one of similar value in terms of thoroughness and argumentation. I highly recommend this work." (Ray Hammond ChristianBookPreviews.com 2006-08-01)"I have bought all the Da Vinci Code books and I feel this book is by far the best one out there. Reinventing Jesus transcends The Da Vinci Code stuff and is more a book on the origin of the New Testament for the most part. It is definitely a book for the average person to learn about how oral tradition and a memorizing culture was behind how things were written back then, all about textual criticism and why we can have confidence in the New Testament today. How books were selected etc. I can say there that it is one of the best books I have ever read that goes into the apologetics of the Bible and I hope that the Da Vinci Code tie in, doesn't give a short shelf life to this book, as it really is a book that is like taking a class on the origin and trustworthiness of the Bible, not The Da Vinci Code." (Dan Kimball Vintage_Faith.com 2006-07-01)"An excellent book. A readable book. A perennial book with unfortunately, a seasonal title. It deserves to be bought and read and stored and studied ó with or without its current connection to DaVinci Code and The Jesus Seminar. The book is an easy reading account of why and how we have the New Testament." (Doug Pagitt tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com 2006-07-01)"For years now I've been lamenting the sad state of published apologetics, as it seemed that there was far more interest in getting out insipid eschatological novels than in offering defenses of the faith rooted in sound scholarship. I was glad when Lee Strobel's works finally jimmied that door some, and when Licona and Habermas cracked it further open with The Resurrection of Jesus; and now, this trio has blown the door off its hinges and sent it flying into the atmosphere. I'll put it bluntly: Buy this book. If you're tired of the Christian publishing industry putting out the intellectual equivalent of Hostess Ding Dongs in defense of the faith, you NEED to make this book a success, because otherwise, they won't get the message and we'll get more Ding Dongs instead of more roast beef." (J. P. Holding Tektonics Book Reviews 2006-04-01)"Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a firsthand look at the primary evidence for Christianity's origins. Reinventing Jesus shows believers that it's okay to think hard about Christianity, and shows hard thinkers that it's okay to believe. While there are other books being written to defend the historical Jesus of the New Testament, and the authenticity and trustworthiness of the New Testament writings, Reinventing Jesus is one of the better ones read by this reviewer. The authors cover such a breath of material that it is hard to find one of similar value in terms of thoroughness and argumentation. I highly recommend this work." (Ray Hammond ChristianBookPreviews.com 2006-08-01)"The book is a very good introduction to the topic from an evangelical perspective, it is well written, extensively footnoted, and it should serve well as a primer for textual criticism and related topics. I highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for just such a resource." (Michael Kruse krusekronicle.typepad.com 2006-05-01)"Of particular benefit in this book are the frequent references to the controversial and influential work of the Jesus Seminar. There is actually far more Jesus Seminar material in this book than DVC [Da Vinci Code] material. Because the methodology of the Jesus Seminar is accepted by many of the media pundits and promoters of the DVC phenomenon, it is important to respond to the assertions of those scholars who are making new and largely revolutionary claims about Jesus and the New Testament. The book is particularly impressive in taking the methodology of radical scholars and going, slowly and carefully through their use of logic, interpretative tools and assumptions. The result is a superb exposure of the bankruptcy of most of the assertions of radical revisions, using the same tools that they claim leads to a 'new' Jesus. . . .I recommend this book without reservation. It is 260 pages of text, with more than 50 pages of readable endnotes and extensive referencing within available New Testament literature. The book is perfectly aimed at students and informed laypersons. It could be given to a skeptic as well, as each author discusses the questions at hand calmly and without ridicule or cheerleader. This is serious scholarship translated down to a level that will help those in local churches and missional callings." (Michael Spencer InternetMonk.com 2006-06-20)"The book Reinventing Jesus is by three authors, Dr. Sawyer who spoke at our church is one of them. I have bought all the Da Vinci Code books and feel this book is by far the best one out there. Reinventing Jesus transcends the Da Vinci Code stuff and is more a book on the origin of the New Testament for the most part. It is definitely a book for the average person to learn about how oral tradition and a memorizing culture was behind how things were written back then, all about textual criticism and why we can have confidence in the New Testament today. How books were selected etc. I can say there it is one of the best books I have ever read that goes into the apologetics of the Bible and I hope that The Da Vinci Code tie in, doesn't give a short shelf life to this book, as it really is a book that is like taking a class on the origin and trustworthiness of the Bible, not the Da Vinci Code." (Dan Kimball Vintage Faith 2006-06-19)"As I get ready to start writing on my next Jesus book, I want to recommend a volume I am currently reading. It is Reinventing Jesus, which is also noted elsewhere on this web site. It is a solid walk through the trustworthiness of Scripture dealing with such issues as oral tradition, the criteria of authenticity, issues tied to textual criticism, the canon, and the issues tied to myth, as well as a walk through the early texts on Jesus' deity. It is accessible and very well done. For those who want orientation to issues tied to these questions, this is a good source." (Darrell Bock dev.bible.org 2006-07-01)

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From the worldwide sensation The Da Vinci Code to the national best-seller Misquoting Jesus, popular culture is being bombarded with radical skepticism about the uniqueness of Jesus and the reliability of the New Testament. Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a firsthand look at the primary evidence for Christianity's origins. Reinventing Jesus shows believers that it's okay to think hard about Christianity, and shows hard thinkers that it's okay to believe.

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Paperback: 350 pages

Publisher: Kregel Publications (May 9, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 082542982X

ISBN-13: 978-0825429828

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It seems that Hollywood is the cause of more interest in Jesus these days, but be that as it may, any talk of Jesus will eventually lead to talk about WHO Jesus was and is. It is with little surprise to find that the current pop-Jesus(es) have more to do with fiction than fact, since the fictional Jesus demands nothing and is, if you take the time to read and study all sides of this debate, more a creation of the image of American pseudo-religion and atheist nihilism than a first century Rabbi who claimed to be equal with God.This not so slim volume is to my mind the best technically oriented refutation of the pop-Jesus scholarship and fiction floating about and popularized not only by Hollywood, but also by some folks with big names in the scholarly community, notably Bart Ehrman and Robert Price. This book also addresses a frustration I have developed with discussions on this topic. Often someone makes a hugely fallacious claim, bases it upon some technical linguistic feature of the bible or translation process of the bible, and then when refutations are provided, the counter claim is made that it "misses the big picture" or is being nit-picky. This book addresses the big picture and the nitty gritty; namely, there is a popular movement to redefine Jesus based upon a loose handing of the primary sources and the history of the primary sources (the New Testament) and that a detailed analysis of the claims of skeptical scholars, even their best arguments, are much less earth shaking or even true when taken apart by evidence. To be frank, I was surprised by how little there was in Ehrman to even be respected after reading this and several other works (listed below) which show he not only clearly misrepresents his own scholarship to purposely lead the less educated into a state of doubt (beyond the warrant of his own findings) but also that some of his legitimate research (and there is much) does not alter in any way the traditional teachings of the received text of the New Testament.Here is the breakdown of the book.Part one examines how the Gospels were compiled in their final form, which covers the bases from oral tradition, memorization on a widespread scale, and finally the writing and copying process.Part two is all about what is called textual criticism, which is another way of addressing this question: "How can we know what the earliest texts of the Gospel said, and how/why have they changed or not changed?" This is to me the highlight of book and it is worth getting for this section alone. What we find is that Ehrman greatly overstates even his best cases, and his claims that "the whole epistle or gospel is changed if I am right" is simply unfounded. Case after case make this point. (As an aside, if you ever read Ehrman's introduction to the New Testament, which he co-authored with the master of the text and his teacher, Bruce Metzger, you find a much more honest and cautious Ehrman at work, an Ehrman who is less sensationalist and more mainline in his judgments. Curious how audience/marketing changes the message for him.) In the end we discover that NT transmission is not like the telephone game where you start with one thing and end up with another. The NT text as we have it is, to quote Ehrman's other less sensationalist works, "At this stage, our work on the original amounts to little more than tinkering. There's something about historical scholarship that refuses to concede that a major task has been accomplished, but there it is...Scholars are convinced that we can reconstruct the original words of the NT with reasonable (though probably not 100%) accuracy."Part three examines how the canon of the NT came to be, and in the process refutes those who claim that the early church just shouted the loudest and had the backing of the Roman State and so effectively bullied down the opposition, an opposition of hitherto viable candidates for true Christianity. This commonly held belief by college freshman and watchers of the cable history programs gets a thorough refutation. There was a unanimous rejection by those churches that had apostolic continuity of the forged. Moreover, the debates were different than they are today. Unlike modern theories that try to show that Jesus was not divine, what was at stake for the early Church, and what was often denied by the later heretics, was the humanity of Jesus. They all agreed Jesus was divine in some sense. But only a God-Man could save.Part four addresses the debate over the quality of Jesus' divinity in greater detail, refuting the current trend in "pop-Jesusology" that he "became divine" sometime in the fourth century (or more commonly, at the Council of Nicaea under pressure from Constantine). The facts do not bear out a later creation of Jesus' deification. There is no overwhelming evidence to show that Jesus' identity was reconsidered in the third or fourth century to make him divine. It is easy in the second century, when Christianity was gaining traction, that even the enemies of the faith aknowledge that the Christians view Jesus as divine. The binitarian and trinitarian developments were the logical liturgical and theological outcome of the Church's experience of God in Christ. And as a side note, contra the revisionists, Nicea had nothing to do with the creation of the canon of Scripture.The last section of the book refutes the notion that Christianity as we know it is simply rehashed pagan myths that were `baptized' and sneaked into this morphing Jewish cult centered around a dead Jewish rebel. While one may find some parallels, to go the route of Joseph Campbell and say that they are related in causality is simply unfounded. It sounds plausible, but it doesn't bear the weight of facts. Both the virgin birth and the resurrection are unique to Christianity. Pagan parallels are similar to the degree that they have to do with virgins and resurrections, but all circumstances and meanings and modes are radically different from the gospel accounts. What is curious is that the case can be made that it was in fact the pagans who borrowed form Christianity, with what we see in some gnostic and mystery cult circles, in order to remain popular as Christianity blossomed.The endnotes are also useful reading, coming in at 64 pages.Other books of interest may include: The highly detailed and thorough Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament: Manuscript, Patristic, and Apocryphal Evidence (Text and Canon of the New Testament) (this is a must read), Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy,The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity,What Have They Done with Jesus?: Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the Bible,The God of the Gospel of John,THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST,The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance,The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels, anything from The Marginal Jew series is essential if you are more than an armchair scholar A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus: The Roots of the Problem and the Person, Vol. 1,Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels and, lastly, N. T. Wright's Who Was Jesus?Enjoy!

James Patrick Holding's review inspired me to check out the book for myself and I wasn't disappointed. The negative reviews were too baseless and lame to take seriously. Reinventing Jesus has become the new dogma of liberal scholarship which bends over backward to conform to modern pop culture. This in turn has given rise to cheap sensationalism which appeals to pseudo-intellectuals who read books to titillate their curiosity and make good conversation at cocktail parties.Modern liberal scholars like the highly touted Jesus Seminar want to create a caricature of Jesus which everyone can agree upon and which doesn't offend anyone. To accomplish this, they strip away the miracles, the prophetic announcements, the fiery judgement, and the exclusiveness of Jesus. Thus we are left with a beatnick philosopher who never would have offended anyone, been nailed to a cross, or inspired his followers to risk martyrdom by proclaiming him as lord and saviour.The authors of this book focused their efforts on defending the New Testament...and what a masterful job they did. The New Testament is the target of debunkers. In order to create their own Jesus, they have to drive a wedge between Jesus and the New Testament. To them, the real Jesus can be found only in verses which are hand-picked by a panel of scholars, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the gnostic gospels, etc. ad nauseum. This book exposes the reinvention of Jesus for what it really is, a fraud and a sham.The book demonstrates how the Christian concepts of baptism, rebirth, and resurrection are foisted upon pagan myths by sensationalists who claim that Jesus was a product of the so-called mystery religions.The so-called gnostic gospels portray a Jesus which is far less human than the Jesus portrayed in the canonical gospels. The reason why they were widely rejected by the early Christians is quite simple...They had no real value.Another brilliant insight can be found in Galatians 2 where Paul openly admits that he travelled to Jerusalem and laid his gospel before the pillar apostles in order to verify the accuracy of the gospel which he was preaching to the gentiles. Paul goes on to say that they added nothing to his gospel which obviously met their approval.The idea that the divinity of Christ was created in the fourth century is absurd. Some of the 48 fragmentary Greek texts which predate the fourth century explicitly mention the divinity of Christ. Second century Roman critics of Christianity such as Celsus, Pliny, and Lucian testified that Christians drew the ire of Roman authorities because they worshipped Jesus.The authors point out that a huge amount of New Testament manuscripts dating from as early as the second century over a wide geographical area have been carefully scrutinized and compared. Similarities of the same passage point to much earlier sources and the variations among the manuscripts are too miniscule to change the core doctrines of the Christian faith. The Apostolic Fathers of the early second century such as Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and Clement of Rome quoted passages from the New Testament. In addition, the Muratorian Canon containing much of the New Testament, including the four gospels, was composed at the end of the second century.The real controlling authorities of what was handed down in the canonical gospels were not a council of fourth century church fathers but the earliest eyewitnesses to Jesus himself. Richard Bauckham also makes this point in his book "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses". The synoptic gospels were committed to writing before the last of these eyewitnesses passed away. If the canonical gospels were somehow altered we must assume that Jesus' disciples were completely disengaged from the earliest Christian communities or suffered from complete amnesia after the resurrection.The greatest insight in this book which should blow away all the arguments of the debunkers is the fact that a high degree of unanimity in regard to the New Testament existed over a wide geographical area long before the fourth century and long before there was any central church authority.AMAZING ISN'T IT!!! Christians from as far west as Britannia and as far east as Mesopotamia and Syria accepted the same books which were incorporated into the New Testament long before there were any church councils to tell them to do so!IMAGINE THAT!!! Coptic Christians in Egypt and Syriac Christians in the Persian empire were reading the same four gospels as Greek speaking Byzantine Christians and Latin speaking Roman Christians!All this should make it very clear that the earliest controlling authorities over what was handed down to us in the canonical gospels were not fourth century bishops but the actual disciples of Jesus and those who witnessed him firsthand. IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT'S WRITTEN IN THE GOSPELS...BLAME THEM!!!I realize that the debunkers have too much time, money, and reputation invested in trying to reinvent Jesus to accept the truth for what it is. Hopefully, some of the MTV generation with a mind of their own will see the reinvention of Jesus for what it is...a fraud.The bottom line is that the biblical Jesus is as close as we will ever get to the real Jesus.Case closed.

In today’s world, many books are being published that redefine Jesus in many ways. Skeptics attempt to make Him something He is not, the literal Son of God. They try to refute the Bible story, stating that it is made up or misquoted with errors. The skeptics do this in fiction books and in supposedly non-fiction books. This book written by noted Bible scholars, explains why the current translations are almost 100% accurate. Effectively there are no doctrinal errors and the books in the New Testament were written by contemporaries while many other contemporaries were still living and would have refuted the books if they were filled with errors. I found this excellent book thorough and easy to understand.

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