Review of Craig Evans’ “Fabricating Jesus”

I recently picked up the book Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels by Craig Evans (Acadia Divinity College scholar and participant at last year’s Ottawa Apocrypha Workshop). The book is intended as a response to the controversial scholarship that claims, among other things, that certain apocryphal Christian literature has value for recovering the Historical Jesus. I have been reading many such “responses” lately from such as Ben Witherington III and Darrell L. Bock (both of whom have contributed opening blurbs to the book applauding Evans’ work). Though I don’t have much personally invested in Historical Jesus scholarship, I do take issue with much of what these authors have to say about the Christian Apocrypha. I hope to post something further on this in a few days (perhaps once I finish Evans’ book). For now, read this review from the Two Tack’s Thoughts blog.