Who is Dr. Craig Bloomberg from The Case for Christ and what is their importance?

Dr. Bloomberg is the author of The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. This tall, lanky biblical expert, sports a beard, drinks coffee and lives in Denver, had been valedictorian of his High School class, National Merit Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Though a biblical expert, he does not ignore Scriptural nuances or casually set aside challenges to the biblical text.