Fabled Book Proves its Worth...

“The Testimony of the Evangelists” by Simon Greenleaf is a much fabled book in apologetic circles, and rightfully so. It is quite an amazing little text. Simon Greenleaf, who was a professor of law at Harvard, and highly esteemed in that profession, investigates the biblical text in a manner most genius. In great detail he examines and cross examines the testimony of the Evangelist. He does so in such a manner that you learn about the law and what can be considered evidence. He goes into great detail to as explain to the person even the why’s of the theories of evidence, and what is admissible and not admissible. He also examines the texts themselves that men who have read them in Greek, and studied them at college and Seminary are rewarded with little gems of knowledge concerning them that perhaps they had never thought of before.
For instance, I am even more convinced now that Matthew was the first gospel written, in the face of current scholarly argumentation for Mark.
In the end Simon Greenleaf makes a convincing argument for the veracity of the witnesses recorded, and the conclusion that Jesus did rise from the dead.
One buying this book gets more than he bargained for, as it also has 3 other manuscripts attached. There is a defense of the shameful way Jesus was tried by Joseph Salvador, and then a rebuttal by Dupin. There is a great little account of textual criticism by Constatine Tishendorff, who discovered the Sinaitic Codex. This little essay is worth your ten bucks by itself. As it shows how having the texts we do confirms and rectifies the text we commonly call the Bible.