New Testament scholar, Craig Evans, is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at
Acadia Divinity College of
Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.
After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Yale and other universities, colleges, seminaries and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the Jesus, Archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.
Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others. He also has served as a consultant for the National Geographic Society.
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Latest
Books:
Jesus,
the Final Days: What Really Happened
What do history and archaeology have to say about Jesus’
death, burial, and resurrection? How were criminal trials
and executions conducted during the time of Jesus? Was Jesus
really raised from the dead? Together, Craig A. Evans and N.
T. Wright address these important topics (in the UK: SPCK;
in North America: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
Exploring
the Origins of the Bible:
Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological
Perspective
For those who want to go deeper in their understanding of
the canon of Scripture, leading international scholars here
provide cutting-edge perspectives on various facets of the
writings that make up the biblical canon, including
discussion of the forces at work that excluded some writings
from the canon. Contributors include James Charlesworth and
Stanley Porter. The editors are Craig A. Evans and Emanuel
Tov (Baker Academic, 2008).
Fabricating Jesus How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels
By Craig A. Evans
Purchase from Amazon.com (US) or Amazon.ca
(CDN)
Fact: The Gospel of Thomas is late, not early; secondary, not authentic. Contrary to what a few scholars maintain, the
Gospel of Thomas originated in Syria and probably no earlier than the end of the second century.
The Gospel of Peter, which describes a talking cross, is late and incredible. In fact, the fragmentary document that we have may not be the
Gospel of Peter at all. The document that we have may date to the fourth or fifth century.
The "secret" version of the Gospel of Mark, allegedly found in the Mar Saba Monastery, is a modern hoax. Analysis of the hand-writing betrays the tell-tale signs of forgery.
The distinctive conclusions of the Jesus Seminar are rejected by most scholars in North America and Europe.
There is absolutely no credible evidence that Jesus had a wife or a child.
The evidence is compelling that the New Testament Gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John--are our best sources for understanding the historical Jesus. The New Testament Gospels are based on eyewitness testimony and truthfully and accurately describe the teaching, life, and death of Jesus.
Jesus was not a Cynic; in all probability he never encountered a Cynic.
No killer monks (albino or otherwise) number among the membership of Opus Dei.
All descriptions of documents, literature, and archaeology in this book are accurate.
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