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By Many Witnesses: The Complete Work
Ten Volumes on the Evidence from Jesus to Today
A ten-volume journey through the documents, people, places, controversies, and surviving evidence that carry the story from the New Testament world to modern Pentecostal and Oneness history.
Read across manuscripts and archaeology, the early church and its councils, Judaism after the Temple, the world's religious traditions, the family of Jesus, and the modern Apostolic movement. Throughout the work, documented fact, reconstruction, tradition, interpretation, and the genuinely unknown are kept in distinct lanes so readers can see both the history and the strength of the evidence behind it.
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A readable history with visible evidence
The record is presented without flattening every claim into the same kind of certainty.
The series follows what can be seen in manuscripts, inscriptions, archaeological remains, contemporary accounts, later traditions, and the arguments historians build from them. It also says when the surviving record is partial or disputed.
Written from an Apostolic perspective, the work keeps its confession visible while distinguishing it from documentary findings. The result is designed for readers who want to understand both what the church believes and how the historical case is assembled.
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Ten volumes, one connected documentary history
The omnibus preserves the finished volumes in numerical order. This guide shows where the journey goes without turning the Academy landing page into ten separate advertisements.
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Volume I
The Hands That Carried It
Foundations and the Documentary Base of the New Testament
How we have the text at all: papyri, codices, text-types, the KJV's base — and the three famous passages the earliest manuscripts lack, stated plainly. The volume that earns trust for the other nine.
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Volume II
The Open Door
The Fragile Seam Between Scripture and History in the Apostolic Age
From Pentecost to the sub-apostolic church: what Scripture records, what the earliest documents add, and the honest seam between them.
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Volume III
The Blood and the Seed
The Expansion of the Early Church, East and West, to Constantine
Episodic persecution from Nero to the Great Persecution; the apologists; the eastward church most histories omit; Dura-Europos in the ground.
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Volume IV
What Is His Name
The Councils, the Creeds, and the Confession of the One God
Nicaea to Chalcedon; the monarchians who survive only in their enemies' books; the creed diff; and the honest three-column ledger — the majority reading and the minority reading, side by side, labeled.
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Volume V
The Stones Cry Out
The Material Record of the New Testament World
Pilate's stone, Gallio's inscription, the politarchs, the pools — and the disputed and forged, kept in as the discipline of restraint. A stone confirms the world of the text; it cannot prove its claims.
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Volume VI
The Light Not Quenched
Judaism After the Temple, and the Long Parting of Church and Synagogue
70 AD and the rebuilding at Yavneh; Bar Kokhba's own letters; the gradual parting of the ways — told with accuracy and respect, the "Council of Jamnia" legend corrected, and the church's own ugly record kept in and condemned.
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Volume VII
Every Nation Under Heaven
The World's Religions at Equal Depth
Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, the Chinese traditions, Islam, Sikhism — each described so its own believers would recognize it, measured with the same documentary ruler as our scriptures, with the series' confession in a separate labeled lane.
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Volume VIII
The Carpenter's Kin
The Family of Jesus, the Desposyni, and the Bloodline That Never Was
The real family of Jesus — James dual-attested, the humble tradition of the heirs — and the modern bloodline industry dismantled by its own paperwork. The church preached a birth, not a pedigree.
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Volume IX
Tongues of Fire
Modern Pentecostal and Oneness Apostolic History, 1901 to the Present
Topeka 1901, Azusa 1906, the New Issue of 1913, the 1916 separation, the 1945 merger — the best-documented era in the series, told with its wounds showing and its numbers honest.
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Volume X
A Cloud of Witnesses
The Thread from Jesus to Today, and What the Evidence Honestly Bears
The whole thread retraced; the evidence inventoried by category; the world today in honest ranges; the four continuity lines concluded — and an ending that claims exactly as much as the witnesses reach.
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