In "Searching for Jesus," Hutchinson draws together recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries to show that many negative ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas—for example, that Jesus was a violent revolutionary—are now being rejected by leading secular scholars.

Among the developments Hutchinson highlights are:

• The 2009 discovery of a first-century house in Nazareth that refutes those who say the village didn't exist in Biblical times;

• The recently discovered Hebrew-language tablet dating to the early first century that speaks about a Messiah who would suffer, die, and perhaps rise again;

• A secular scholar in the UK who argues that the Gospel of Mark was written, not 40 or 50 years after Jesus' death as many scholars have claimed for at least a century, but more like five or ten;

• New research that suggests the Gospel accounts are based on eyewitness, possibly written, sources, not on anonymous legends as scholars thought a century ago;

• New archaeological proof for figures mentioned in the New Testament, including the high priest Caiaphas(,) and possibly James, the "brother of the Lord;"

• The discovery in 2012 of seven New Testament papyri – one of which, is the Gospel of Mark, that may date to the first century; and (Photo: 20th Century Fox / SonofGodmovie.com)

• Jewish experts who say the Gospel texts reveal that Jesus was a trained rabbi, not an illiterate peasant, as some revisionists have claimed.

"Many of the 'scientific' or scholarly ideas about Jesus you hear in the media are literally a century old and are no longer taken seriously by leading experts," Hutchinson says.

As an example, he cites the idea that Jesus' early followers saw Him only as a powerful rabbi, noting that recent scientific analysis of the texts shows that the earliest sources of the New Testament spoke of Jesus "standing at the right hand of God."

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