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Lee Strobel, "Four Years in Jail-and Innocent," Chicago Tribune (August 22, 1976) and "Did Justice Close Her Eyes?" Chicago Tribune (August 21, 1977). CHAPTER 1: THE EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE 1. Lee Strobel, "Youth's Testimony Convicts Killers, but Death Stays Near," Chicago Tribune (October 25, 1976). 2. Irenaeus, Adversus haereses 3.3.4. 3. Arthur G. Patzia, The Making of the New Testament (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1995), 164. 4. Ibid., 49. 5. Karen Armstrong, A History of God (New York: Ballantine/Epiphany, 1993),82. 6. William Lane Craig, The Son Rises: Historical Evidencefor the Resurrection of Jesus (Chicago: Moody Press, 1981), 140. 7. Armstrong, A History of God, 79. 8. 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. CHAPTER 2: TESTING THE EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE 1. Lee Strobel, "Jury in Makeshift Courtroom Hears Dying Boy Tell of Attack," Chicago Tribune (February 24, 1976). 2. Luke 1:1-4. 3. Simon Greenleaf, The Testimony of the Evangelists (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984), vii. 4. Cited in Craig Blomberg, "Where Do We Start Studying Jesus?" in Michael J. Wilkins and J. R Moreland, eds., Jesus under Fire (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 34. 5. See Gleason L. Archer, The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982) and Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe, When Critics Ask (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor, 1992). CHAPTER 3: THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE 1. See Lee Patrick Strobel, Reckless Homicide: Ford Pinto Trial (South Bend, Ind.: And Books, 1980), 75-92 and Lee Strobel, God Outrageous Claims (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997), 43-58. Ford was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges after the judge withheld key documents from the jury., though the automaker was successfully sued in civil cases. Allegations about the Pinto were first reported in Mother Jones magazine. 2. F. F. Bruce, The Books and the Parchments (Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1963), 178, cited in Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1972; reprint, San Bernardino, Calif.: Here's Life, 1986), 42. 3. Frederic Kenyon, Handbook to the Textual Criticism o the New Testa)f ment (New York: Macmillan, 1912), 5, cited in Ross Clifford, The Casefor the Empty Tomb (Claremont, Calif: Albatross, 1991), 33. 4. Frederic Kenyon, The Bible and Archaeology (New York: Harper, 1940), 288. 5. Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible (1968; reprint, Chicago: Moody Press, 1980), 361. 6. Ibid., 367, emphasis added. 7. Patzia, The Making of the New Testament, 158. 8. Benjamin B. Warfield, Introduction to Textual Criticism of the New Testament (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907), 12-13. 9. Geisler and Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible, 195. They note that some include Philemon, I Peter, and I John among the disputed books, but "it is probably better to refer to these as omitted rather than disputed books." 10. Ibid., 207. 11. Ibid., 199. This does not include the Apocrypha, which were accepted by particular churches for a particular period of time and today are considered valuable though not canonical. Examples: Shepherd of Hermas, Epistle to the Corinthians, Epistle of Pseudo-Barnabas, Didache, Apocalypse of Peter, The Acts of Paul and Thecla, and Ancient Homily or the Second Epistle of Clement. 12. Ibid. CHAPTER 4: THE CORROBORATING EVIDENCE 1. Webster Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (New York: Gramercy, 1989), 328. 2. Maurice Possley, "Mob Hit Man Aleman Gets One Hundred to Three Hundred Years," Chicago Tribune (November 26, 1997). 3. Charles Templeton, Act of God (New York: Bantam, 1979), 152. 4. Josephus, The Antiquities 20.200. See also Edwin Yamauchi, "Josephus and the Scriptures," Fides et Historia 13 (1980), 42-63. 5. Josephus, The Antiquities 18.63-64. 6. Michael Martin, The Case against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1991), 49. 7. Tacitus, Annals 15.44. 8. Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96. 9. Gary Habermas, The Historical Jesus (Joplin, Mo.: College Press, 1996), 196-97. 10. Paul L. Maier, Pontius Pilate (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1968), 366, citing a fragment from Phlegon, Olympiades he Chronika 13, ed. Otto Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriptores Graeci Minores, I (Leipzig: Teurber, 1877), 101. Translation by Maier. 11. See P. Maier, "Sejanus, Pilate, and the Date of the Crucifixion," Church History 37 (1968), 1 -11. 12. M. Wilcox, "Jesus in the Light of His Jewish Environment," Aufstieg und Niedergang der rijmischen Welt 2, no. 25.1 (1982), 133. 13. Luke Timothy Johnson, The Real Jesus (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 120. 14. Ignatius, Trallians 9. 15. See Gary Habermas, The Verdict of History (Nashville: Nelson, 1988). 16. Ibid, 169. CHAPTER 5: THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 1. For the full story, see Joe McGinniss, Fatal Vision (New York: New American Library, 1989). For a description of the scientific evidence, see Colin Evans, The Casebook of Forensic Detection (New York: John Wiley & Ions, 1996), 277-80, 2. Luke 18:35, Mark 10:46. 3. Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe, When Critics Ask (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor, 1992), 385. 4. John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Ready with an Answer (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1997), 272. 5. Michael Martin, The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1991). 69, emphasis added. 6. John McRay, Archaeology and the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991), 155, emphasis added. 7. Robert Boyd, Tells, Tombs, and Treasure (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), 175, cited in Habermas, The Historical Jesus, 172. 8. Geisler and Howe, When Critics Ask, 185. 9. Frank Zindler, "Where Jesus Never Walked," American Atheist (Winter 1996-1997), 34. 10. Ian Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence (1984; reprint, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988), 67. 11. Jack Finegan, The Archaeology of the New Testament (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992), 46. 12. Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence, 67. 13. Wilkins and Moreland, Jesus under Fire, 209. 14. Ibid., 211. 15. Kevin D. Miller, "The War of the Scrolls," Christianity Today