The Christ Files

I have just completed reading the latest work from the John Dickson Collection. it is called The Christ Files and it is published by Blue Bottle Books.

Here Dickson analyses how historians know what they now about the historical Jesus. He gives us examples of sources used by historians such as Greco-Roman texts, Jewish texts, the Oral Tradition, New Testament documents, and even archeology.

Dickson has a simple style of writing that is appealing to me as I couldn't handle heavy theological pieces. That is not to say that Dickson is light on or dumbs down his content. He tells us what we need to now and doesn't get bogged down in specific details that may happen in more scholarly works.

The book is only 101 pages long but is packed full of information. I recommend it to just about everyone who hasn't already studied biblical history.