The Case for the Real Jesus:
A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

by Lee Strobel

If you’re already familiar with Strobel’s Case for books, you will find no surprises in this volume. He travels the country to interview top-notch scholars, asking them difficult questions. The book is a record of those interviews with some independent research added along the way. One thing that jumped out at me in this volume is that he seemed to go to great lengths to speak with scholars who were respected by both believers and non-believers in their field. This certainly added to the feeling of unbiased research.

This particular volume comes on the heels of some of the media hype over the last few years about things such as the Gospel of Judas, the supposed tomb of Jesus, The DaVinci Code, and other such things. Here are the six challenges covered in this volume:

This is a very timely book, given culture’s postmodernist bent, Hollywood’s (and the Media’s) love affair with all things anti-Christian, and the proliferation of the Discovery Channel Jesus. At least two of the chapters are very similar to chapters found in The Case for Christ, but even those are approached slightly differently, with updated information (e.g., number of manuscripts). And those issues that were repeated are well worth brushing up on if you haven’t examined them since you first read Case for Christ.

Overall, I found this book to be very much worth my time. And I can assure you that if you pick it up, you will too.