The Jesus Inquest

 My latest read from the BookSneeze bloggers program was "The Jesus Inquest" by Charles Foster.  Foster is a barrister (lawyer) in England and he presents two sides to the resurrection through the eyes and arguments of two fictitious barristers (X and Y).  The format of the book is that X presents evidence opposing the truth of the resurrection and Y rebuts the evidence.  This format helps to keep the main arguments on topic and not going off in the many different rabbit trails that this subject matter could lead one down.  I thought this book was very well written and easy to understand.  It exposed many new theories about the resurrection, mainly against, that I had not previously been exposed.  Some of these theories were really far fetched and some of them made logical sense, but they were contrary to what is found in scripture.  It was also interesting to read an apocryphal New Testament writing, the gospel of Peter, and to learn the similarities and differences from the writing found in the canon.

All in all I thought this was a great book and would have no problem recommending it to people.  It was an easy read and not very long.