Books Quote by Leonard Shlain

“The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no archaeological evidence…

— L. Michael White

“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies we have…

— Michael S. Horton

“There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly after Jesus's…

— D.M. Murdock

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations…

— Thomas Paine

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

— Elie Wiesel

One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and…

— Merrill C. Tenney

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from…

— Louie Giglio