The Son Rises: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

NOTES

1. C. H. Dodd, “The Appearances of the Risen Christ: A study in the form criticism of the Gospels,” in More New Testament Studies (Manchester: U. of Manchester Press, 1968), p. 128.

2. Josephus Jewish War 3. 41-43.

3. Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 20. 200. There is also an account by Hegesippus recorded in Eusebius Historiae ecclesiasticae 2. 33.

4. Eusebius Historiae ecclesiasticae 1. 7, 14.

5. Hans Grass, Ostergeschehen und Osterberichte, 4th ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970), p. 102.

6. Indeed, so strong is the evidence for these appearances that Wolfhart Pannenberg, perhaps the world’s greatest living systematic theologian, has rocked modern, skeptical German theology by building his entire theology precisely on the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus as supplied in Paul’s list of appearances (Wolfhaft Pannenberg, Jesus: God and Man, trans. L. L. Wilkins and D. A. Priebe [London: SCM, 1968], pp. 88-99.) Pannenberg also argues for the empty tomb, but its role in his case is subsidiary and confirmatory.

7. Julius Müller, The Theory of Myths, in its Application to the Gospel History, Examined and Confuted (London: John Chapman, 1844), p. 26.

8. A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1963), pp. 188-91.

9. Ibid., p. 189.

10. Ibid., p. 190.

11. Müller, Theory, p. 29.

12. John A. T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament (London: SCM, 1976), pp. 3, 342-48.

13. Bo Reicke, “Synoptic Prophecies on the Destruction of Jerusalem,” in Studies in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, ed. D. E. Aune (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp. 121-34.

14. Robinson, Redating, p. 343.

15. Donald Guthrie, New Testament Introduction, 3d ed. rev. (London: Inter-Varsity, 1970), pp. 340-45.

16. Vincent Taylor, The Formation of the Gospel Tradition, 2d ed. (London: Macmillan, 1935), p. 41.

17. Walther Künneth, The Theology of the Resurrection, trans. J. W. Leitch (London: SCM, 1965), pp. 92-93.

18. Ibid., p. 93.

19. Jean Héring, La première épître de saint Paul aux Corinthiens, 2d ed., Commentaire du Nouveau Testament 7 (Neuchatel, Switzerland: Delachaux et Niestlé, 1959), p. 147.

20. Grass, Ostergeschehen, pp. 229-32.

21. E. E. Ellis, ed, The Gospel of Luke, New Century Bible (London: Nelson, 1966), p. 275.

22. Irenaeus Against Heresies 1. 26. 1.

23. Rudolf Schnackenburg, Das Johannesevangelium, 2d ed., 3 vols., Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament 4 (Freiburg: Herder, 1972-76), 3: 383.

24. Michael Perry, The Easter Enigma (London: Faber & Faber, 1959), pp. 141-95.

25. Ibid., p. 214.

* J. B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English.