The Christian apologetic of "Lord, Liar, or Lunatic" made famous by C.S. Lewis has gained recent skepticism. Many twenty-first-century critics of Christianity believe the biblical portrait of Jesus Christ is based on myth. Lord or Legend? puts skeptics' claims to the test against multiple scholarly disciplines, including history, ethnography, anthropology, and folklore, to uncover fascinating truths about the historical Jesus. Authors Gregory A. Boyd...

The authors examine the claims of Jesus myth theorists in detail, but also launch an all-out assault on the assumptions of Gospel literary critics who teach that the oral tradition leading up to the formation of the Gospels was fundamentally unreliable. The book charges that these assumptions were not based on solid historical research, but rather on the biases of a small but influential groups of Eurocentric, ethnocentric academic elites who imposed...