On the Resurrection, Volume 3: Scholarly Perspectives

by Gary Habermas

Overview

Published in four volumes, On the Resurrection serves as Gary R. Habermas’s magnum opus – a comprehensive defense of the authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, built from Habermas’s lifetime of scholarly study.

In the third volume, Habermas identifies and collects hundreds of scholarly treatments related to the resurrection. Spanning both believers and nonbelievers, the collection provides a strong overview of everything that has been written about the resurrection and its impacts.

The volume includes summaries of scholarly sources covering:

• The nature of historical research and New Testament preliminaries
• Facts about Jesus’s existence, minimal historical facts of the Resurrection, and other known historical facts
• Critiques and questions surrounding the Gospel accounts
• Alternative theories and responses
• Scholars commenting on other scholars and trends
• How the resurrection impacts theology

On the Resurrection, Volume 3: Scholarly Perspectives offers a thorough “lay of the land” for anyone wanting to pursue an in-depth study of Jesus of Nazareth’s resurrection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087778648
Publisher:	B&H Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/15/2025
Series:	On the Resurrection , #3
Pages:	992
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 2.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gary R. Habermas (PhD, Michigan State University) is one of the world's leading apologists for the historicity of Jesus's resurrection. He is distinguished research professor of apologetics and philosophy and chair of the department of philosophy and theology at Liberty University and has written over fifty books.

Table of Contents

Extended Table of Contents
Ancient Sources Abbreviation List
Introduction to Volume 3: Scholarly Perspectives

I. Historical Research and New Testament Preliminaries
II. Jesus: The Preliminaries
III. Minimal Historical Facts
IV. Other Known Historical Facts
V. Questions from the Gospels
VI. Alternative Theories
VII. Responses to Alternative Theories
VIII. Scholars Comment on Other Scholars and Trends
IX. Bodily Nature of Resurrection
X. Moving from Resurrection to Theology

Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

Editorial Reviews

Habermas’s argument from evidential near-death experiences and a likely afterlife to resurrection appearances of some sort is a useful addition to the literature.”
—Dale C. Allison Jr., Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary

“In volume 1 of this four-volume series, Gary Habermas has already produced a masterful defense of the resurrection of Jesus with his comprehensive collection of evidence. In volume 2, he responds to all the major and quite a few minor alternative explanations for the resurrection with grace, truth, and level-headed reason. No doubt, after this volume there will continue to be critics who simply ignore or casually skim and brush off this opus giganticum, and there will be those who follow them. Anyone wishing to credibly defend a skeptical position, however, will have to engage and then refute this work in considerable detail. I do not currently see how this would be possible.”
—Craig L. Blomberg, distinguished professor emeritus of New Testament, Denver Seminary

“This book presents a monumental scholarly debate on the validity of vision for the resurrection of Jesus in Western Christianity.”
—John Dominic Crossan, emeritus professor of biblical studies, DePaul University

“This series confirms Habermas’s status as the leading voice among an increasing number of eminent scholars openly affirming the strong evidence for Jesus’s resurrection.”
—Craig S. Keener, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary

“Dr. Habermas began his reading on the resurrection of Jesus when I was one year old. And I am sixty-one! The first volume of his magnum opus on the topic is the most comprehensive on the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus ever written. Habermas is today’s top scholar on the topic. In fact, I am aware of only one other person who knows more about the resurrection of Jesus than Habermas, and that’s Jesus! That book and the subsequent volumes are for New Testament scholars, philosophers of religion, Christian apologists, and anyone who has a serious interest in the topic.”
—Michael Licona, professor of New Testament studies, Houston Christian University

“Beyond any reasonable doubt, this massive, rigorous, highly informed tome increases Dr. Gary Habermas’s standing as the world’s leading expert on the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. . . . You simply must get this book.”
—J. P. Moreland, distinguished professor of philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

“Gary Habermas has made it his main mission in his scholarly work to focus on the resurrection of Jesus and its importance. After many decades of hard work and detailed scholarship, he is now producing a four-volume series that is and will be, to my knowledge, the most detailed treatment of this crucial subject in Christian history. This is a resource that every Christian college and seminary library should have on its shelf because it promises to be the most complete and compelling treatment of this subject available.”
—Ben Witherington III, Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary

“Professor Gary Habermas has made studying the resurrection of Jesus Christ his life’s work. Probably no one else on the planet has researched or documented the relevant arguments in greater detail.”
—Peter Williams, principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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