End Notes for “The ‘Problems’ with Prophecy” (by Nathan Busenitz).
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[1] Leon Wood, A Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1973), 280
[2] Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1982), 24–26.
[3] Bruce K. Waltke, “The Date of the Book of Daniel,” 194–203 in Vital Apologetic Issues, edited by Roy B. Zuck (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, 1995), 203.
[4] William Webster, Behold Your King (Battle Ground, Wa.: Christian Resources, 2003), 86. Cf. also: Robert C. Newman, “Fulfilled Prophecy as Miracle,” pp. 214–225 in In Defense of Miracles, edited by Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 224–225. Newman writes: “Even when critical scholarship has done its best to redate Old Testament texts so as to avoid fulfilled prophecy, the constraints provided by the translation of the Old Testament into Greek (250–150 B.C.) and the rise of the Christian church leave a substantial residue of clear examples [of fulfilled prophecies].”
[5] William Varner, The Messiah: Revealed, Rejected, Received (Bloomington, Ind.: Author House, 2004), 7.
[6] John Ankerberg with John Weldon and Walter Kaiser, The Case for Jesus the Messiah (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1989), 21.
[7] Josh McDowell, in The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 169ff surveys some of the Jewish testimony to such prophecies.
[8] Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, one volume edition (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1972), 165.
[9] Franz J. Delitzsch and Parton J. Gloag, The Messianic Prophecies of Christ (Minneapolis, Minn.: Kloch & Kloch, 1983), 23–24. In Appendix D of his work, William Webster, Behold Your King, lists several hundred OT texts that were considered messianic by the Targums and ancient rabbinic writings.
[10] Robert C. Newman, “The Testimony of Messianic Prophecy” 203–214 in Evidence for Faith, edited by John Warwick Montgomery (Dallas, Tex.: Probe Books, 1991), 212.
[11] Edwin Yamauchi, “Jesus Outside the New Testament: What Is the Evidence?” in Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995), 221.
[12] Gary Habermas, The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ (Joplin, Mo.: College Press, 2005), 250.
[13] Varner, The Messiah, 7.
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