Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

Written by Craig A. Evans

Narrated by Shea Taylor

Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring-just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media.

Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions predispose scholars to distort the record? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus?

Commenting on such recent releases as Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, James Tabor's The Jesus Dynasty, Michael Baigent's The Jesus Papers and the Gospel of Judas, for which he served as an advisory board member to the National Geographic Society, Craig Evans offers a sane approach to examining the sources for understanding the historical Jesus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Aug 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765047705

Craig A. Evans

Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Budapest) is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. Author and editor of more than ninety books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Evans has lectured at major universities worldwide and has regularly appeared on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and in many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television, and National Geographic Channel speaking on the historical Jesus, the New Testament Gospels, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible.

Reviews for Fabricating Jesus

[Mbusiseni P. Khalishwayo · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The book is written well enough for anyone to understand everything. But the content is disappointing. The author spends a lot of time criticising other scholars and promising to rebut their arguments, without ever doing so. For instance, he makes such promises regarding the errors in the NT as pointed out by other scholars; then he later admits that they are right that there are such errors and insists that we should disregard them and instead believe on the basis that the disciples were convinced that Jesus was resurrect. As a lawyer, it's hard for me to take someone serious when they say I should disregard the fact that witnesses contradict each other on material aspects and believe them on the basis that those witnesses seem convinced of their story.

[Kris · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Well red and full of substance! Highly recommend reading as a counterbalance to biblical critics on the person of Jesus