Proving History
Carrier, Richard C.![Proving History](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/123/12322243/CHSBZCOP0312322243.jpg)
This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods-not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study-can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes's Theo...