This unique reference work gathers into one handy volume the key extrabiblical texts that provide the necessary background for passages in the Gospels, along with introductory comments by the editors.
Extra-Biblical Evidence for Jesus: Signs of His Presence from Outside Scripture
By: Darrell L. Bock
The Evidence from Roman or Roman Empire Sources
Suetonius, Claudias 25.4. De Vita Caesarum
Life of Nero 16.2
Tacitus, Annals xv.44.
Pliny the Younger, Epistles x.96-97.
Julius Africanus on Thallus
Lucian of Samasota, The Passing of Peregrinus.
Source from a Syrian Philosopher
Mara bar Sarapion.
Josephus, Antiquities 18.116-19
Josephus, Antiquities 20.200,
Josephus, Antiquities 20.200
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 1.1.7-8
Eusebius, Demonstration of the Gospel 3.5.105-06
Origen, Against Celsus 1.47
Origen, Commentary on Matthew 10.17.
Rabbinic Sources and Evidence of Debate with the Church Fathers
b Sanh 43a and 107b
b ‘Abodah Zerah 27b, 16b-17a
Tosefta, Shehitat Hullin
‘Abodah Zerah 16b-17a
‘Abodah Zerah 27b
Justin, Dialogue 69:7
Justin, First Apology 30
Justin, Dialogue 108
Origen, Contra Celsum 1:68.
Justin’s Dialogue 69:7
- 3910 reads
