How Do Historians Evaluate the Evidence for Jesus? (Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" Part 1)

This is the beginning of a series examining the historical evidence for Jesus presented in Bart Ehrman's book "Did Jesus Exist?" In this video, Adam gives an overview of how historians and scholars of ancient history evaluate the evidence we have concerning the life of Jesus.

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Contents:
0:00 Argument that Jesus Is God from Miracles
5:10 Bart Ehrman’s Book “Did Jesus Exist?”
10:34 Why Study a Book by an Agnostic?
14:10 Structure of the Argument
23:13 Should We Disregard Christian Scholars?
27:13 Historically Evaluating the New Testament
31:05 The Limits of Historical Investigation
35:22 Criteria for Historical Reliability
37:45 Criterion #1: Multiple Sources
41:04 Criterion #2: Independent Sources
41:54 Criterion #3: Corroborating Sources
43:35 Criterion #4: Early Sources
45:18 Criterion #5: Extensive Sources
46:30 Criterion #6: Non-biased/Dissimilar Sources
54:12 Misusing the Criterion of Dissimilarity
58:00 How Do Historians Think about Sources?
1:02:27 Facts that “All Scholars” Agree On