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Episode 206: Dale C. Allison - Approaching the Resurrection of Jesus as a Historian

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What's the Process That You've Gone Through as a Historian?

As an historian, i do think that at the end of the day, the arguments in favour of an empty tomb are better than those against it. But this is not a conclusion that i hold with a hundred % assurance. I am also very sure that some of jesus's followers, and my bet would be the first one was mary magdalen and the second was peter, there were people who believed that they saw jesus after he had been crucified. And i also think that they were operating with the expectation of resurrection before the crucifixion. You need to remember that luke himself, i mean, one of the gospels just makes it clear. So

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