Historical Jesus in The Books Store

Every year the story of Christmas is told and retold. But how much of its timeless message is really understood? The Heart of Christmas is a compilation of inspiring insights on that great story from six beloved Christian communicators. From Max Lucado's look at the birth of Christ from Joseph's point of view to David Jeremiah's exposition of the relevance of the name of Jesus, each author explores the meaning of Christmas from a different perspective. This is a refreshing gift that will remind readers of the wonder, beauty, and truth of the Christmas story.

• Contends that Jesus, Joshua, and Tutankhamun were the same person.

• Provides evidence from church documentation, the Koran, the Talmud, and archaeology that the Messiah came more than a millennium before the first century C.E.

• Shows that Christianity evolved from Essene teachings.

Although it is commonly believed that Jesus lived during the first century C.E., there is no concrete evidence to support this fact from the Roman and Jewish historians who would have been his contemporaries. The Gospel writers themselves were of a later generation, and many accounts recorded in the Old Testament and Talmudic commentary refer to the coming of the Messiah as an event that had already occurred.

Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment? is a lively and provocative debate between Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig and New Testament scholar and atheist Gerd Lüdemann. This published version of a debate originally set at Boston College invites the responses of two additional scholars on either side of the debate. Robert Gundry, a New Testament scholar, and Stephen Davis, a philosopher, argue in support of a historical and actual resurrection, while Michael Goulder and Roy Hoover, both New Testament scholars, offer their support for Gerd Lüdemann's view that the "resurrection" was based on the guilt-induced visionary experience of the disciples. The book concludes with a final response from Gerd Lüdemann and from William Lane Craig.

The Debaters: William Lane Craig is research professor at Talbot School of Theology. He is the author of Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus as well as other books on philosophy and Christian apologetics.

In this definitive work, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff offers a detailed defense of the Resurrection, the singularly most important event in history and the foundation upon which Christianity is built. Using the acronym F.E.A.T., the author examines the four distinctive, factual evidences of Christ's resurrection--Fatal torment, Empty tomb, Appearances, and Transformation--making the case for each in a memorable way that believers can readily use in their own defense of the faith.