Is Jesus History?

What can we really know for sure about the past? Can anything from ancient history be regarded as fact? In particular how seriously can we take the historical sources for the life death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth? Did he really even live in first-century Galilee and Judaea or is he a figure of legend?In this timely book historian Dr John Dickson unpacks how the field of history works giving readers the tools to evaluate for themselves what we can confidently say about figures like the Emperor Tiberius Alexander the Great Pontius Pilate and of course Jesus of Nazareth.He presents the evidence methods and conclusions of mainstream scholars--both Christian and not--and asks some pertinent contemporary questions without offering any pushy answers: If Jesus really did exist what are we to make of his own claims and those of his followers and what would any of it mean for us today?