This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes s Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes s Theorem. Conversely, he argues that any method that cannot be reduced to this theorem is invalid and should be abandoned.
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