Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ, by Darrell L. Bock and Daniel B. Wallace is currently
99 cents at both
Christianbook (ePub, DRM Protected) and
at Amazon (Kindle mobi).
The book is a healthy 248 pages long. Ratings are very good, in my opinion, considering the polarizing nature of the subject matter. Authors Bock and Wallace are New Testament scholars with, as far as I aware, impeccable credentials.
One caveat, however. Though not changing as fast as in, say, the hard sciences, developments in religious studies are changing at a fairly rapid pace. This book has a copyright date of 2007, and a publication date of 2010 (I can't quite figure that one out). A lot has changed in Biblical studies since 11 or 8 years ago. For one thing, the book discusses the Talpiot (or Talpiyot) tomb, which a decade ago was touted as evidence that Jesus was not physically resurrected from the dead. For some reason, the ones who seemed to be the chief proponents of the theory--Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor--have been very quiet about this tomb, and their theory, in the last few years. The theory evidently has become passe, for some reason. But this book has at least one chapter on this topic.
However, with 248 pages, a 99-cent (88% off of retail) price, and authorship by renowned scholars, I think that I can find more than enough highly useful information in the book to make it a "buy" for me.