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Article: Easter: What Happened to Jesus?
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- Tikkun
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Institute of Labor and Mental Health Mar/Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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CONSIDERING THE WEIGHT THE EARLY CHURCH ATTACHED TO THE resurrection, it is curious that, subsequent to the empty-tomb stories, no two resurrection accounts in the four Gospels are alike. All of these narratives seem to be very late additions to the tradition. They answer a host of questions raised by the gospel of the resurrection. At the core of all these accounts is the simple testimony: we experienced Jesus as alive.
A later generation that did not witness a living Jesus needed more; for them the resurrection narratives answered that need. But what had those early disciples experienced? What does it mean to say that they experienced Jesus alive? The resurrection appearances did not, ...