I have not read the book, but I would be interested to hear one of his arguments that you find persuasive.
In terms of books I like on Jesus and the Resurrection,
1). Jesus: Man or Myth by the late Carsten Peter Thiede, is a short very accessible read by a well known historian and biblical scholar.
2). NT Wright is one of the most important and most famous biblical historians alive today, his book “The Resurrection of the Son of God,” is regarded as the definitive study of the Resurrection today. It’s a bit long though at 700 pages. Some of his shorter books are “Surprised by Hope”, where he devotes 2 chapters to the Resurrection. This book is a favorite of mine. And his "The Challenge of Jesus is also good. He is useful because he also talks a bit about other current scholarship.
3). William Lane Craig. You have some options here for his books, he is a philosopher and theologian and has investigated the Resurrection alot. The simplest place to turn may be his book “On Guard”, which is on general apologetics, but includes a chapter on Jesus as God and a chapter on the Resurrection. His stuff on the resurrection is pretty good. There’s also a chapter on it in his book “Reasonable Faith.” For full length books, there is his pop. book, “The Son Rises,” and A longer scholarly book “Assessing the Evidence for the Resurrection” (or something like that, don’t know if I got the exact title of the last one right.
Craigs essentially advises considering the evidence for the Resurrection like this:
There are three facts that can be established on the basis of historical evidence:
1). Jesus was buried and his tomb found empty three days later. – Habermas (who also writes on the Resurrection) found that 75% of scholars since 1975 agree on this, skeptics included.
2). Jesus’s disciples believed they experienced appearances of the risen Christ. – Even the skeptic Luddemamann (sp.) admits this, he just tries to claim it was the result of hallucinations.
3). The Origin of Christian belief, Jesus’ disciples believed that he rose from the dead.
Even most skeptics will admit these three historical facts.
Craig’s next step (part 2) is to say that the best explanation of these facts, is that Jesus really did rise from the dead leaving behind an empty tomb.
This strikes me as good reasoning. There’s alot of explanation behind it, of course. You can go more in depth on each of those 3 points, but that’s the essence of it.
. I know this question/situation seems kinda silly on my part, but thanks ahead of time.