Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-271) and index.
Contents
My own investigation -- The utter lack of eyewitness evidence ; The Gospels are not biographies -- Testing the evidence of the Gospels ; do the Gospels stand up to scrutiny? -- The manuscript evidence : do we have what the evangelists originally wrote? -- No corroborating evidence ; no reporters covered the Jesus beat -- The stones keep mum : how biblical archaeology digs up a world without Jesus -- A butt-load of evidence ; the Jesus seminar and mainstream biblical research -- The identity crisis ; did Jesus memorize the Nicene creed? -- The psychology of heresy ; must apologists be crazy when they say Jesus believed he was God? -- The piffle evidence ; could a finite Jesus correspond in any way to an infinite God? -- The finger-paint evidence ; a mess of messianic prophecy -- Dead man walking ; the swoon theory -- The evidence of the empty argument ; was Jesus' body ever even in a tomb? -- The appearance of evidence ; was Jesus seen in line at Burger King (of kings)? -- The circumcision evidence ; is a supernatural resurrection the best explanation for folks no longer trimming their sons' foreskins? -- The failure of apologetics.
