- The outline and much of
the content of this article have been
derived from the writings and lectures
of Dr. W.L. Craig. See especially The
Historical Argument for the Resurrection
of Jesus During the Deist Controversy,
The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985; Assessing
the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity
of the Resurrection of Jesus, The
Edwin Mellen Press, 1989; The Son Rises,
Moody Press, 1981; Knowing the Truth
About the Resurrection, Servant Books,
1988.
- W.L. Craig, Assessing
the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity
of the Resurrection of Jesus, The
Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, pp. xv-xvii.
- W.L. Craig, The Historical
Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus
During the Deist Controversy, The
Edwin Mellen Press, 1985, p. 541.
- W.L. Craig, Assessing
the New Testament... p359.
- Michael Grant, Jesus:
An Historian's Review of the Gospels,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977, p. 176.
- The 5 Sources are the
gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke/Acts, John
and Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.
It is largely accepted that even though
the gospels are interdependent in large
sections, the appearance stories are independent
traditions.
- A.N. Sherwin-White, Roman
society and Roman Law in the New Testament,
Oxford University Press, 1963, p. 189-191.
- C.S. Lewis, Christian
Reflections, Walter Hooper ed., Eerdman's,
1967, p. 155.
- Colin J. Hemer, The
Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic
History, Eisenbrauns, 1990.
- R.T. France, The
Evidence for Jesus, IVP, 1986, p.133.
- Craig Blomberg, The
Historical Reliability of the Gospels,
IVP, 1987, p. 254
- Docetism was a particular
Gnostic heresy that matter was evil and
that therefore God could not really have
become incarnate in Jesus.
- I Corinthians 15:35-55.
- Murray J. Harris, Raised
Immortal: Resurrection and Immortality
in the New Testament, Eerdman's,
1985, p. 20.
- John 11:23,24.
- Michael Grant, Jesus:
An Historian's Review of the Gospels,
p. 199.
- John Wenham, Easter
Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts
in Conflict?, Zondervan, 1984, p.
123.
- See Matthew 13:55,
Mark 6:3, John 7:5.
- See Acts 1:14.
- II Corinthians 11:23-29.
- James D.G. Dunn, The
Evidence For Jesus, SCM Press, 1985,
p. 65
- For example, see Dan
Barker, “Easter Challenge: Leave
No Stone Unturned”, Freethought
Today, Madison Wisconsin, March 1990,
pp. 4-5.
- John Wenham, Easter
Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts
in Conflict?, Zondervan, 1984.
- Cited in Craig, Assessing
the New Testament... p. 420.
- John 11:25,26.
