HISTORICITY OF THE RESURRECTION Chapters 4-5 from " Jesus for Ever. Fact and Faith " The Resurrection: did anything really happen (original) (raw)

THE ORIGINS OF BELIEF IN JESUS' RESURRECTION

In connection with the gospel records of Jesus' resurrection it would be worth considering carefully how the Easter message of the apostles and the primitive church came into being.

The Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part I)

Is it possible to verify the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? What is the correct historical method to approach the accounts of the resurrection of Jesus in the gospels? What criteria should be used to determine the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? What historical evidence do the gospels present for the resurrection of Jesus? This paper is the first of a two part series that attempts to answer these questions. This paper was published in The Journal of Ministry and Theology 6.1 (Spring 2002), 63-87.

The Resurrection: Fact or Fiction?

2000

In this essay we will take a look at the evidence for the Resurrection and see if this event is historical fact or fiction. But, first, we must establish the fact that Jesus Christ was a historical figure and not a legend. There are several highly accurate historical documents that attest to Jesus. First, let's look at the four Gospels themselves. The authors Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John recorded very specific facts of the events surrounding the life of Jesus, and archaeology has verified the accuracy of the New Testament. Hundreds of facts such as the names of officials, geographical sites, financial currencies, and times of events have been confirmed. Sir William Ramsay, one of the greatest geographers of the 19th century, became firmly convinced of the accuracy of the New Testament as a result of the overwhelming evidence he discovered during his research. As a result, he completely reversed his antagonism against Christianity.

The Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part II)

For Christians the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the foundation of our faith. One of the strongest arguments for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus is the resurrection appearances of Jesus to his disciples and to unbelievers who then became believers. This paper surveys those appearances and also looks at other evidence for the resurrection of Jesus: the witness of the apostles, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and extra-biblical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus including the Nazareth Decree and the Shroud of Turin along with ancient non-Christian sources (Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, Pliny the Younger) and ancient Christian sources (Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Justin Martyr).

A Brief Analysis of The Historicity of Jesus' Resurrection

SAURAJ, 2022

The resurrection of Jesus has been a debatable subject since the beginning of the 1 st century AD; in as much as it is simple and easy to believe in the resurrection of Christ for Christians, it is not quite so in the world today, where skepticism and agnosticism dominate the culture. In the last two centuries, with various revolutions emerging, due to the prevalence of naturalistic view in the literature world, and theology, in particular, several leading scholars started a quest to re-study the historicity of Jesus' resurrection and subsequently considered the four accounts of the four gospels to be merely a myth. This article attempts to briefly analyze the quest and, most importantly, provide legitimate evidence for the death and resurrection of Jesus. In this article, the gospels' account is considered ancient literature since our main priority is to know whether it is historical. Therefore, the historicity of the gospel account is analyzed through the methodology employed by both the secular and religious scholars, which in turn makes the study not biased. The analysis concludes and reclaims that the account of the gospel is historical.

Reply to reviews of Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Routledge 2020)

Reply to reviews of Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Note: the book is available for download here https://www.academia.edu/42985421/Investigating\_the\_Resurrection\_of\_Jesus\_Christ and the bibliographic details of the sources cited in this document can be found in the Bibliography therein. This document will be updated on a regular basis in response to new reviews as I become aware of them. Last update 8/4/2023. My book Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Routledge, 2020) defends the conclusion that the historical evidences indicate that there were groups of people in the first century AD who claimed that they had seen Jesus alive after his crucifixion, they truly saw something, what they saw was not caused intra-mentally but extra-mentally, and the extramental entity was not anyone else but the same Jesus who died on the Cross earlier and was seen alive again later. Therefore, Jesus resurrected.