one of the most dangerous attacks on Inerrancy in decades. While Licona is one of a recent generation of conservative scholars that have embraced a Heiser like approach to hermeneutics, Mike has taken far too much liberty with comparing secular writers to prophetic authors, assuming that in the writing of Scripture, the frailty of human authors is permitted. His research mentions a writing textbook used in ancient time as his authority for these 'writing devices' yet the book he refers to is NOT a writers guide to what is permissible in writing ancient biographies, but rather a book of creative writing exercises that includes among other exercises, simply refuting all true points to see where it leads the writer. The result of Mike's conclusions from this lead him to the false conclusion that history was not written in the first century with total accuracy, and therefore the Gospels should not be expected to either. But to say that since Josephus minimized the heinous acts of the Romans in his history books out of fear of offending them, it is possible that the Gospel writers followed that literary style, undermines the entire historical accuracy of the gospels. His latest book does not minimize this concern for me. In fact, it undermines the incredible contribution Mike has made to evangelical scholarship in his prior works verifying the historical truth of the gospel. His permission of 'literary devices' to explain apparent contradictions, using the methods in his latest arguments and this book, can be used by skeptics to reduce the resurrection to another literary device used by the Apostles and writers of Scripture.