Christian Doubt» History http://www.christiandoubt.com thoughts from someone dealing with doubt Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:04:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Resurrection of Jesus, A New Historiographical Approach by Michael Licona http://www.christiandoubt.com/2011/02/07/the-resurrection-of-jesus-a-new-historiographical-approach-by-michael-licona/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-resurrection-of-jesus-a-new-historiographical-approach-by-michael-licona http://www.christiandoubt.com/2011/02/07/the-resurrection-of-jesus-a-new-historiographical-approach-by-michael-licona/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:59:52 +0000 Mark Lefers http://www.christiandoubt.com/?p=695 Continue reading →]]> I am going to start another large book, “The Resurrection of Jesus, A New Historiographical Approach” by . Licona says that this book seeks to produce a historical description of whether Jesus rose from the dead. Even though I know that Licona believes that Jesus rose from the dead, and that his book may slant the interpretation of the data to that belief, I feel like this book with it’s focus on the historical method will be helpful. The book looks daunting with 718 pages, but it should provide some good insight. I will try to provide reviews of different chapter as I go through this book. Wish me luck.

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]]> http://www.christiandoubt.com/2011/02/07/the-resurrection-of-jesus-a-new-historiographical-approach-by-michael-licona/feed/ 4 Codex Sinaiticus http://www.christiandoubt.com/2009/07/20/codex-sinaiticus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=codex-sinaiticus http://www.christiandoubt.com/2009/07/20/codex-sinaiticus/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:55:12 +0000 Mark Lefers http://christiandoubt.com/?p=322 Continue reading →]]> Codex_SinaiticusSomeone the other day pointed me to this great link that has the Codex Sinaiticus online. The Codex Sinaiticus is is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It It has been dated to the 4th century (based on palaeographical analysis) and contains one of the very oldest and best manuscripts of the New Testament. The only earlier New Testament manuscripts contain small portions of the text.

I easily burned through several hours just playing with the different features. It was a little clunky at times, but to click on different parts of the manuscript, then see the translation, and compare it to my NIV version was really cool. I wish they could do this for some of the other early manuscripts too. For those who don’t know the field well (like myself), it adds so much to actually see the manuscripts and to see the translations and to compare it to the Bible I have in hand today. It gives me a bit more confidence that what we have today is what the Gospel writers wrote back then. I just have to keep thinking and pondering whether what they wrote down is true or not (unfortunately the harder part).

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