The Case for Christ

Lee Strobel was a legal-affairs editor and a self-described atheist when he set out to investigate whether the historical claims about Jesus hold up. The book is structured like a series of interviews. He puts questions about the manuscripts, the eyewitnesses, the resurrection, and the resurrection accounts to thirteen scholars and reports their answers. It is written as one journalist building a case, and it is openly a work of Christian apologetics, not neutral history. If you want to understand the standard evangelical argument for the reliability of the Gospels laid out plainly, this is the most widely read version of it.