17For examples of physicians who deal with this issue, see William D. Edwards, Wesley J. Gabel, and Floyd E. Hosmer, “On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ,” Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 255, No. 11, 21 March 1986; Robert Bucklin, “The Legal and Medical Aspects of the Trial and Death of Christ,” Medicine, Science and the Law (January, 1970); C. Truman Davis, “The Crucifixion of Jesus: The Passion of Christ from a Medical Point of View,” in Arizona Medicine, March, 1965, pp. 183-187; Pierre Barbet, A Doctor at Calvary (Garden City: Doubleday, 1953); Robert Wassenar, “A Physician Looks at the Suffering of Christ” in Moody Monthly, 79/7, March 1979, pp. 41-42; James H. Jewell, Jr., and Patricia A. Didden, “A Surgeon Looks at the Cross,” in Voice, 58/2, March-April, 1979, pp. 3-5.
18For examples, Barth, Church Dogmatics, vol. IV, p. 340; and Brown, “The Resurrection,” p. 223.
19Upton Ewing, The Essene Christ (New York: Philosophical Library, 1961).
20Ibid., pp. 48-51, 62-63.
21Ibid., pp. 52, 62-64.
22Ibid., see pp. 62-64, 368-369, 393, 397, for examples.
23Charles Potter, The Lost Years of Jesus Revealed (Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, Inc., n.d.).
24Charles Potter, Did Jesus Write This Book? (Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, Inc., n.d.), pp. 16, 77, 133-141.
25Ewing, Essene Christ, p. 51.
26Ibid., p. 78.
27Potter, Did Jesus Write This Book? p. 14.
28Ibid., pp. 134-135.
29Ibid., p. 136.
30For an extensive list of similarities, see especially James H. Charlesworth, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus,” in Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. by James H. Charlesworth (New York: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 9-22; Jean Daniélou, “What the Dead Sea Scrolls Tell Us About Jesus,” in Daniel-Rops, Sources, pp. 23-28; John M. Allegro, The Dead Sea Scrolls (Baltimore: Penguin, 1956), pp. 148-151; William Brownlee, “Jesus and Qumran,” in Jesus and the Historian, ed. by F. Thomas Trotter (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1968), p. 75.
31Brownlee, “Jesus and Qumran,” p. 52.
32Charlesworth, “Dead Sea Scrolls,” pp. 22-35; Daniélou, “Dead Sea Scrolls,” pp. 28-29; Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, pp. 161-162; Brownlee, “Jesus and Qumran,” pp. 62-76; Charles Pfeiffer, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969), pp. 97-99, 130-134; F.F. Bruce, Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956), pp. 79-84.
33Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 160.
34Daniélou, “Dead Sea Scrolls,” p. 28.
35Ibid., pp. 30-32; Brownlee, “Jesus and Qumran,” pp. 69-70; Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, pp. 161-162; Bruce, Second Thoughts, p. 98.
36Pfeiffer, Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 97.
37Although this argument cannot be pursued here, see Habermas, The Resurrection of Jesus: An Apologetic.
38Hugh Schonfield, Those Incredible Christians (New York: Bantam, 1969), pp. IX, 50-51.
39Ibid., p. 67.
40Ibid., pp. 135-155.
41Ibid., pp. 136-149.
42Ibid., pp. 149, 211, 230.
43Ibid., pp. XVII, 170.
44Ibid., pp. 142-146, 259-272.
45Ibid., pp. 50-51.
46See Habermas, The Resurrection of Jesus: An Apologetic, chapter 3 for several additional indications of Jesus’ claims to deity. For an argument for the deity of Christ even for those who do not accept the trustworthiness of the New Testament, see Terry L. Miethe and Gary R. Habermas, Why Believe? God Exists! (Joplin: College Press, 1993), chapter 27.
47Joachim Jeremias, The Central Message of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1965), pp. 9-30; Reginald Fuller, The Foundations of New Testament Christology (New York: Scribner’s, 1965), p. 115, for instance.
48Schonfield, Those Incredible Christians, pp. 98, 257.
49Ibid., p. 155.
50Oscar Cullmann, The Christology of the New Testament, transl. by Shirley Guthrie and Charles Hall (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963), pp. 311-312.
51Ibid., pp. 312-313; Raymond E. Brown, Jesus: God and Man (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1967), pp. 20-22.
52Schonfield, Those Incredible Christians, p. 252.
53Cullmann, Christology, p. 311.
54A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament, 6 vols. (Nashville: Broadman, 1931), vol. 4, p. 491.
55Cullmann, Christology, pp. 235, 311-312.
56See Habermas, The Resurrection of Jesus: An Apologetic, especially chapters 1-3 for the details of such an argument.
57The subject of Jesus’ self-designations is an intricate issue and cannot be dealt with in detail here. For some justification of these claims, see Oscar Cullmann, Christology. On the last point, see Reginald Fuller, Foundations, p. 115.
58Cullmann, Christology, pp. 235, 237, 307.
59Fuller, Foundations, pp. 208, 248.
60Cullmann, Christology, p. 321; see also p. 235.
61Joachim Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus, transl. by Norman Perrin (London: SCM Press, Ltd., 1966), p. 101.
62C.H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and its Developments (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), p. 16.
63John Peterson, “A Legend Says Jesus Died in Japan at 112,” The Detroit News, August 9, 1971, pp. 1A, 6A. There are other parallels of a similar nature in Ethiopia and Egypt.
64Joyce, The Jesus Scroll, pp. 7-14.
65Ibid., pp. 100-110, 131-140, 160.
66Ibid., pp. 54-59, 76-99, 141-158.
67Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail (New York: Delacorte, 1982), pp. 301-320, 324.
68Ibid., pp. 322-332, 347.
69Ibid., see chapters 1-11, 13 for details. See p. 286 for the author’s statement concerning the need to have evidence of such a bloodline.
70See James M. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 329-338.
71The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, transl. by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall (New York: New American Library, n.d.), p. 93.
72Peterson, “Legend,” p. 6A.
73Joyce, The Jesus Scroll, p. 187; see also pp. 7-14.
74Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, Holy Blood, p. 286.
75Ibid., p. 372.
76Peterson, “Legend,” p. 6A.
77Joyce, The Jesus Scroll, pp. 158-159, 184.
78Ibid., pp. 159-160, 191.
79Ibid., pp. 78-79.
80Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, Holy Blood, pp. 303-304.