The December issue of Christianity Today magazine features an interview with New Testament scholar Craig Keener about his brand new book, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (Baker Academic).
The article was posted online yesterday and can be read here. [UPDATE 12/27/11 --- Christian Book Distributors has also posted an interview. You can access the audio of Matthew Miller's chat with Keener here.]
[UPDATE 1/5/2012 --- CBD's Miller selects Miracles as the book of the year for 2011.]
Keener is professor of New Testament at Asbury Seminary. He has authored several scholary works on the NT including commentaries (such as, The Gospel of John) and monographs (such as, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels).
Top biblical scholars are not spare in their praise of Miracles. Craig Evans, professor of NT at Acadia Divinity College, says, "Craig Keener has written arguably the best book ever on the subject of miracles."
Richard Bauckham, professor emeritus of NT Studies at St. Andrews University, adds, "Craig Keener's discussion of New Testament miracles adduces a uniquely -- indeed staggeringly -- extensive collection of comparative material .... Keener mounts a very strong challenge to the methodological skepticism about the miraculous to which so many New Testament scholars are still committed. It turns out to be an ethnocentric prejudice of modern Western intellectuals. So who's afraid of David Hume now?"
Other scholars weigh in with their endorsements here.
Keener's blog can be read here and a video of him discussing his journey to faith can be seen here.
Craig has been featured on this blog many times, including an eight-part interview series, Fridays with Craig Keener, in 2008.
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