I have finished the first chapter of Resurrection of the Son of God - I am enjoying it - but it is a chore to read. I usually can read about two fairly sized books a week - but this one I am having to slog on. But like a professor of mine says "Slog on brother, slog on" - and so I will.

The first chapter was basically outlining his methodology and some basic questions about the resurrection. He also called into play his dialogue partners ( I am assuming) of mostly critical/uberskeptical scholars - who it seems to me have more of a political axe to grind than to seek truth. I am going to start with the second chapter today or tommorrow ( I have some studying to for class.) In the next chapter he is going to go into the pagan views of the word "resurrection" and the afterlife - then moving on to the second temple Jewish views then into the gospels and early church. I like this strategy - seems to me (though has problems) to be important to getting a background of the worldview of the early church and how it deviated(or mutated is his word) from the second temple Judaism's views of resurrection.

I hope to gain much from this book. I am also praying as I read to discern correctly what I need to learn from this.