Textual Criticism

Intro

• Peter J. Williams. Can We Trust the Gospels? (2018).

• Lydia McGrew. Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts (2017).

• Craig Blomberg. Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions (2014).

• FF Bruce. The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable? (2003).
  
  

Intermediate

• James White. The King James Only Controversy: Can you Trust Modern Translations? (2009).

• Lydia McGrew. The Mirror and the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices (2020); Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels (2023).

• Michael J. Kruger. The  Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with  Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity (2010).

• Evans, Bird, Gathercole, et. al. How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature---A Response to Bart D. Ehrman (2014).
  
  

Advanced

• Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (2017).

• Dan Wallace, et. al. Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism (2019).

• Lydia McGrew. The Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage (2021).

• Craig Evans. Jesus and the Manuscripts (2020).

• Ed Komoszewski, et. al. Reinventing Jesus (2006).

• Darrell Bock & Daniel Wallace. Dethroning Jesus (2023).

• Craig Evans. Fabricating Jesus (2008).

• Craig Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (2007); The Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Countering the Challenges to Evangelical Christian Beliefs (2016). 

• Luuke Van de Weghe. Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke: Luke’s Reliance on Eyewitness Sources (2023).

• Craig Keener. Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels (2025).

Canon

Intro

• Quarles & Kellum. 40 Questions About the Text and Canon of the New Testament (2023).
  
  

Intermediate

• John Meade & Peter Gury. Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible (2022).

• Philip W. Comfort. The Origin of the Bible (2013).

• C. E. Hill. Who Chose the Gospels? Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy (2012).

• Michael J. Kruger. The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (2013); Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books (2012).

• F.F. Bruce. The Canon of Scripture (2018).

• Sean McDowell,.The Fate of the Apostles (2015).
  
  

Advanced

• Gallagher & Mead. The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis (2018).

• Timothy Law. When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible (2013).

• Tov & Evans. Exploring the Origins of the Bible: Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective (2008).

• McDonald & Sanders. The Canon Debate (2022); The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority (2006).

• Laird & Porter. Five Views on the New Testament Canon (2022).

Resurrection

Intermediate

• N. T. Wright. Surprised by Hope (2007).

Advanced

• Michael Licona. Raised on the Third Day: Defending the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus (2020); The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (2010).

• N. T. Wright. The Resurrection of the Son of God (2003).

• William Lane Craig,. Assessing the NT Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus (1989); The Son Rises: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus (1981); The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (1985).

• Dale C. Allison Jr. The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (2021).

Resources Against Reliability

Intermediate

• Bart Ehrman, How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (2015); Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (2009);  Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (2009); Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (2011); Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior (2016).
  
  

Advanced

• Robert Carrier. On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (2014)

• Richard C. Miller. Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity (2017)