Here comes the sun.

I said it's all right.

Bill, this is going to be a great series of podcast.

We've chosen five of your books to revisit.

These books span and represent your career

and ministry up to now.

And we've discussed these books in past podcasts,

but we'd like to hear more about the background and the process that went into writing each one.

So be thinking of some anecdotes, your thought processes, inspirations, reactions to the books, and things like that, Bill,

that you can share with us as we go through each podcast.

Let's go way back.

Let's start with the sun rises. Give us a brief overview of

the book and when it was published. This book flowed out of my doctoral

research on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus,

which I pursued at the University of Munich under Wofrach Palenbach.

It's a popularization of the work that went into my doctoral

thesis on the historicity of the resurrection. I wrote it to the best of my recollection after all these decades. During

1979 in our apartment complex in Munich in the lounge up on the top floor.

I would go up there every day and wrote this book by hand.

We didn't have computers back then

and then delivered the manuscript to Jan

and she typed it on our IBM Selectric typewriter. The book was

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