Historical Jesus and Evolution around the Blogosphere

Diglotting has begun reviewing Michael Licona’s The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. I too have a copy of the book on my shelf, waiting to be reviewed, and am looking forward to getting to it in the near future.

Ari (on his blog of awesome) links to Craig Evans’ review of Robert Price’s Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?. Here’s a snippet as a sample:

Price…is eager, almost perniciously so, to find insoluble problems in the Gospels, even if it means embracing theories that most scholars find improbable. The examples are legion, many of them indulging in forms of the fallacy of excluded middle.

That sounds about right. Ari also links to a review of Price’s book Jesus is Dead in RBL by Tony Costa.

Mike Kok offers concluding thoughts on Maurice Casey’s magnum opus on the historical Jesus.

On the topic of evolution, Northstate Science explains about Lucy’s pelvis, Michael Dowd explains why he is an evangelist for evolution, and BioLogos takes a retrospective look at the year that has just ended.