The Son Rises: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

NOTES

1. Edward Lynn Bode, The First Easter Morning, Analecta Biblica 45 (Rome: Biblical Institute, 1970), p. 165.

2. That Paul is here quoting an early Christian saying has been proved by Joachim Jeremias, Die Abendmahlsworte Jesu, 4th ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967), pp. 95-98, and is acknowledged by all New Testament scholars.

3. C. H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments, 3d ed. (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1967), p. 26.

4. Rudolf Bultmann, The History of the Synoptic Tradition, trans. John Marsh, 2d ed. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), p. 274.

5. Vincent Taylor, The Gospel According to St. Mark, 2d ed. (London: Macmillan, 1966), p. 599.

6. Tosephta Sanhedrin 9.8-9; Mishnah Sanhedrin 6.5-7.

7. R. H. Smith, “The Tomb of Jesus,” Biblical Archaeologist 30 (1967): 87-88.

8. Raymond Brown, The Gospel According to John, Anchor Bible (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 982-83.

9. Josephus Jewish War 5. 147, 259.

10. See also Mishnah Sanhedrin 6.6; B. Sanhedrin 46b Bar; and Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 4. 202.

11. Josephus Jewish War 4. 317.

12. Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 4. 264.

13. Josef Blinzler, “Die Grablegung Jesu in historischer Sicht,” in Resurrexit, ed. Édouard Dhanis (Rome: Editrice Libreria Vaticana, 1974), pp. 65-68.

14. Mishnah Rosh Ha-Shanah 1.8.

15. J Sot 19a.

16. B Kidd 82b.

17. Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen, Der Ablauf der Ostereriegnisse und das leere Grab, 3d rev. ed., Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1966), pp. 44-49.

18. Hans Grass, Ostergeschehen und Osterberichte, 4th ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970), p. 178.

19. Ulrich Wilckens, Die Missionsreden der Apostelgeschichte, 3d ed., Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament 5 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchner Verlag, 1974), p. 135.

20. See the excellent illustrated article by Kenneth Weaver, “The Mystery of the Shroud,” National Geographic (June 1980), pp. 730-52.

21. E. Earle Ellis, ed., The Gospel of Luke, New Century Bible (London: Nelson, 1966), p. 273.

22. Joachim Jeremias, New Testament Theology, trans. John Bowden, New Testament Library (London: SCM Press, 1971), p. 301.

23. See the discussion in Rudolf Pesch, Das Markusevangelium, 2 vols. Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament (Freiburg: Herder, 1976-77), 2: 519-20.

24. Ibid., 2:21, 364-77.

25. Bode, Easter, p. 161.

26. Brown, John, p. 980.

27. Bultmann, History, p. 309.

28. Brown, John, p. xcvi; see also p. 1128.

29. C. K. Barrett, The Gospel According to St. John, 2d ed. (London: SPCK, 1978), p. 117; agreeing is Brown, John, p. 1046.

30. Bode, Easter, pp. 162-63.

31. James D. G. Dunn, Jesus and the Spirit (London: SCM, 1975), p. 120.

32. D. H. Van Daalen, The Real Resurrection (London: Collins, 1972), p. 41.

33. Jacob Kremer, Die Osterevangelien—Geschichten um Geschichte (Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1977), pp. 49-50.

34. Rudolf Schnackenburg, personal letter, September 21, 1979.

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