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	*The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel: Issues and Commentary* Craig L. Blomberg A key work at a time when the fourth Gospel has often received short shrift, one that addresses questions raised by historical critics and affirms the historical reliability of John’s Gospel with intelligence and sure-footed care.
	*The Historical Reliability of the Gospels* Craig L. Blomberg A calm, balanced overview of the history of Gospel criticism that shows both the values and limits of those methods and makes a strong case for the historical trustworthiness of the Gospels.
	*The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities* Darrell L. Bock An excellent introduction to the beliefs of Gnosticism and other ancient mutations of Christianity deemed heretical, showing just how different and inferior they really are to historic Christianity when considered as entire worldviews.
	Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ Robert M. Bowman, Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski. Debunks in detail the myth that first-century Christians did not almost uniformly believe in the deity of Christ, from the earliest stages of the New Testament onward. Makes a strong case for believing that Jesus was indeed divine.
	*Lord or Legend? Wrestling with the Jesus Dilemma* Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy An abbreviated and more popular-level form of their larger work, The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition (2007). Covers all the most important issues succinctly while fully abreast of the whole range of recent scholarship.
	*Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels* Craig A. Evans A careful sifting of all of the sources outside the New Testament alleged by some to enable us to view the historical Jesus in radically different terms than the four canonical Gospels present. In short, the conclusion is that they fail in this endeavor.
	Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus Timothy P. Jones A point-by-point refutation of the misleading claims of Ehrman’s book, plus an equally helpful critique of his books on the so-called lost gospels and lost Christianities. Surveys a huge amount of scholarship and presents it in a remarkably readable, bite-size fashion.
	*Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John* Mark D. Roberts In many ways, without obviously intending to do so, a simplified and very popularized form of almost the identical array of issues treated in the book, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, for those who find even Blomberg’s semi-popularization of the issues too daunting.