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RE: Scholarship.
Gary Habermas has compiled a list of scholars so that he has very accurate statistics. His list contains scholars who have written papers in English, French and German from 1975 to the present day. It is currently over 500 pages long and contains over 1400 texts on the death burial and resurrection of Jesus contained within over 100 subtopics. Due to the large amount of recent studies coming out, Gary Habermas has not published his list yet. He wants to be as complete as possible, so he has only released a summary of the statistics in an article.
Gary Habermas' list is not limited to only Christian scholars. He says;
“ I have a large number of people from the atheist, the agnostics [and] the highly skeptical communities. The communities who would basically say anything from 'You can't say [that] Jesus was raised from the dead' all the way over to 'He was not and could not be raised from the dead'. ”
Gary Habermas defines a scholar as someone who has a terminal degree, who has published peer reviewed work and preferably has a university post or teaches on the subject. He does make occasional exceptions if the scholar "proves" himself. For example, Richard Carrier or Robert Price, both atheists, were included in the list before they had PhDs because of their large amount of knowledge on the subject and publications. Gary Habermas says;
“ In other words, I'm not trying to block anyone out because they are 'too radical'."
Gary Habermas has compiled a list of scholars so that he has very accurate statistics. His list contains scholars who have written papers in English, French and German from 1975 to the present day. It is currently over 500 pages long and contains over 1400 texts on the death burial and resurrection of Jesus contained within over 100 subtopics. Due to the large amount of recent studies coming out, Gary Habermas has not published his list yet. He wants to be as complete as possible, so he has only released a summary of the statistics in an article.
Gary Habermas' list is not limited to only Christian scholars. He says;
“ I have a large number of people from the atheist, the agnostics [and] the highly skeptical communities. The communities who would basically say anything from 'You can't say [that] Jesus was raised from the dead' all the way over to 'He was not and could not be raised from the dead'. ”
Gary Habermas defines a scholar as someone who has a terminal degree, who has published peer reviewed work and preferably has a university post or teaches on the subject. He does make occasional exceptions if the scholar "proves" himself. For example, Richard Carrier or Robert Price, both atheists, were included in the list before they had PhDs because of their large amount of knowledge on the subject and publications. Gary Habermas says;
“ In other words, I'm not trying to block anyone out because they are 'too radical'."
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