v.3 Scholarly Perspectives
Part 1: The Nature of Historical Research
Part 2: Jesus: The Preliminaries
Part 3: The Minimal Historical Facts
Excursus 1: Jesus's Death and Contemporary Scholarship
Excursus 2: The Early Creedal Traditions
Part 4: The Other Six Known Historical Facts
Part 5: The Gospel Resurrection Data
Conclusion: From the Disciples' Experiences to Real Appearances
Appendix 1: Evidential Near-Death Experiences
Appendix 2: Outlined Data in Favor of the Minimal Facts
Appendix 3: Summary Outline of the Second Six Known/Accepted Non-Minimal Facts Data.
Second-century challenges to the death and resurrection of Jesus
Hume 1: The argument against miracles
Hume 2: Reformulations of Hume
Nineteenth-Century liberalism and alternative resurrection theories
Nineteenth-Century liberals versus liberals on alternative theories
Nineteenth-Century conservatives versus liberals on alternative theories
Twentieth Century: Barth, Bultmann, and Beyond
Discrepancies and the resurrection
Fraud type 1: The disciples stole the body
Fraud type 2: Someone else stole the body
The swoon or apparent death theory
Legend 1: Dying-and-rising gods
Legend 2: Historical persons resurrected?
Illumination and illusion hypotheses
Five reasons for the failure of naturalistic theories
Appendix 1: The Talpiot Tomb
Appendix 2: Proving naturalism and related views?
Appendix 3: Islam and the resurrection of Jesus.