Offering A Calm, Balanced Overview Of The History Of Gospel Criticism, Especially That Of The Late Twentieth Century, Blomberg Introduces Readers To The Methods Employed By New Testament Scholars And Shows Both The Values And Limits Of Those Methods. He Then Delves More Deeply Into The Question Of Miracles, Synoptic Discrepancies And The Differences Between The Synoptics And John. After An Assessment Of Noncanonical Jesus Tradition, He Addresses Issues Of Historical Method Directly. This New Edition Has Been Thoroughly Updated In Light Of New Developments With Numerous Additions To The Footnotes And Two Added Appendixes. - Publisher. Introduction -- 1. Traditional Approaches To The Reliability Of The Gospels -- 2. New Methods In Gospel Study -- 3. Miracles -- 4. Contradictions Among The Synoptics? -- 5. Problems In The Gospel Of John -- 6. The Jesus-tradition Outside The Gospels -- 7. Final Questions On Historical Method -- Postscript -- Appendix A: Archaeology And The Gospels -- Appendix B: Textual Criticism And The Gospels. Craig L. Blomberg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [337]-393) And Indexes.