Welcome to the Investigators Guide to the Bible. Today’s episode is called “Evidence, Part 1.” I hope these few episodes give you some tools to sift through the billions of sources, all claiming to give you the inside scoop on what happened 2000 years ago. Here are some sources I talk about in the episode:

1. New American Bible, Revised Edition. Washington, DC: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 2010

2. The Didache Bible, Ignatius Bible Edition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2018

3. Hesemann, Michael, translated by Michael J. Miller. Mary of Nazareth: History, Archeology, Legends. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, CA 2016 (Original German edition, 2011, Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg, Germany.)

4. Lanser, Rick, MDiv. “Pinpointing the Date of Christ's Birth,” Associates for Biblical Research, 2019. (https://biblearchaeology.org/about/abr-projects/the-daniel-9-24-27-project/4368-pinpointing-the-date-of-christ-s-birth, accessed 2 Mar 2022)

5. Mason, Steve. “Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History.” Journal for the Study of Judaism, 38, p. 457-512, 2007.

6. Jensen, Morten Horning. “Purity and Politics in Herod Antipas’s Galilee: The Case for Religious Motivation,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 11-1, p. 3–34, 2013.

7. “The Protoevangelium of James the Lesser.” Translated by Alexander Walker. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 8. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight.

8. Mishnah, Online Version from Sefaria (https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Mishnah, accessed frequently between 2021 and 2024.)

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