In Fall 2002, my essay "The Case Against the Empty Tomb" was published in
The Journal of Higher Criticism. It is now appearing in a hardcover book edited by Robert Price and Jeffery Jay Lowder, titled
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave. Some people may have heard of the title "Jesus is Dead," but Prometheus edited the title of the book for being too provocative. There is
a description of the book at the Internet Infidels already. The webpages have been created at
amazon.com and
bn.com also, making the book available for preorder. Here is the table of contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Robert M. Price
1. Is There Sufficient Historical Evidence to Establish the Resurrection of Jesus?, Robert Greg Cavin
2. The Resurrection As Initially Improbable, Michael Martin
3. Why Resurrect Jesus?, Theodore Drange
4. Apocryphal Apparitions: 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as a Post-Pauline Interpolation, Robert M. Price
5. The Spiritual Body of Christ and the Legend of the Empty Tomb, Richard Carrier
6. The Case Against the Empty Tomb, Peter Kirby
7. The Burial of Jesus in Light of Jewish Law, Richard Carrier
8. Historical Evidence and the Empty Tomb Story: A Reply to William Lane Craig, Jeffery Jay Lowder
9. Taming the Tehom: The Sign of Jonah in Matthew, Evan Fales
10. The Plausibility of Theft, Richard Carrier
11. Financial Aspects of the Resurrection, J. Duncan M. Derrett
12. By This Time He Stinketh: The Attempts of William Lane Craig to Exhume Jesus, Robert M. Price
13. Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli on the Hallucination Theory, Keith Parsons
14. Swinburne on the Resurrection, Michael Martin
15. Reformed Epistemology and Biblical Hermeneutics, Evan Fales
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Selected Topics
7 Comments:
When will it be available for purchase?
It looks like it will ship in March 2005.
best,
Peter
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Thanks, Peter. I'll be sure to check it out.
Congratulations on getting into print.
Carefully timed to spoil Easter for Christians everywhere, eh?
It seems from the TOC that WL Craig has been singled out for particular interaction.
Why him rather than NT Wright? I think the latter's Resurrection of the Son of God is now widely regarded as the most significant treatment of the issue to date, and it's been out for over a year now.
Just wondering :-)
When I wrote my essay in 2001-ish, Wright's book wasn't out. I believe that Richard Carrier might have slipped in something that interacts with him. I can't say, though, because I'm waiting for a copy like everyone else!
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