The Jesus legend: a case for the historical reliability of the synoptic Jesus tradition

Much New Testament scholarship of the last 200 years has seen fit to relegate the Jesus tradition as recorded in the Gospels to the realm of fiction.By drawing together recent scholarship from a variety of fields, including history, anthropology, ethnography, folklore, and New Testament studies, Paul Eddy and Gregory Boyd show that the evidence actually supports--rather than refutes--the historical reliability of the Gospels and the existence of Jesus.