Going for the Jugular (Habermas & Licona post #9: Part 1) 1

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Open series outline: Going for the jugular
 

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In Chapter 2, which is called History 101, the authors lay out 5 principles for weighing historical testimony.

I list them here using my own paraphrase. Testimony is stronger when it is:

  1. Corroborated by multiple, independent witnesses
  2. Provided by someone neutral or even hostile to the benefiting parties
  3. Embarrassing to the person providing it
  4. Eyewitness rather than secondhand
  5. Provided closer to the time of the events in question

These principles seem reasonable to me; the more a piece of testimony meets the above criteria, the more justified we are in calling a narrative “historical”.

What do you think?

God bless,

TFOTF

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