The Differences and Contradictions in the Biblical Resurrection Narratives

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: In the final chapters of your book, you go into a little bit more detail about some of the scholarship surrounding the resurrection. And one of the things you talk about is some of the kind of differences and contradictions in the different biblical resurrection narratives. Now, why do some people think that those differences point to perhaps the inauthenticity of the accounts themselves?ben-ghiat: Well, first off, these are very well-meaning people who don't know anything about how history is written. If all of these historical accounts, which first circulated individually, the four gospels, Matthews letters, if they all agreed in every single detail, that would