"Loke: Investigating the Resurrection"

Andrew Loke has several lengthy responses to critics of his new book Investigating the Resurrection in this thread. That said, there's a mixture of things with which I'd agree and things with which I'd disagree.

Loke's book is currently free on Amazon Kindle as well as on his Academia.edu (pdf).

Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

I recently skimmed Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach (Routledge 2020).

Upsides:

• Detailed, comprehensive, and up-to-date. 

• Benefits from extensive engagement with various writings by Richard Carrier. Bart Ehrman is another target. As is Dale Allison. 

• Likewise, he targets more recent critics like Larry Shapiro and David Litwa

• Craig Keener is well represented, including his recent Christobiography.

• Personal correspondence with Timothy McGrew has sharpened his arguments. 

Downsides

• Despite the subtitle, I don't see that his monograph breaks new ground. 

• Unrevised first editions of Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, as well as the unrevised first edition of Moreland & Craig's Philosophical Foundations for Christian Worldview.

• Dated commentaries. Apparently the library at Hong Kong Baptist doesn't have much of a budget for commentaries. 

The upshot is that this is definitely one of the best defenses of the Resurrection. However, this is well-trodden ground with major competition. And there's lots of overlap.