(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . erly brought forth the body of Jesus from the tomlbif it might have b. en obtained. Thus the torab re-1 on ;;.ains an ^impeachable witness of the truthfulness of the testfimony of the di3Cip]es. jThe resurrection phenomenom as explained by meresubjective visions is still the favorite of many. Visionsin an emotional atmosphere, it is said, are very contagious. Such Pauls is pointed out to be. According to Renan, it I was Mary Magdalene who set the train of visions going. • 0He asserts th .t it was very natural for the disciples to [ s
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . erly brought forth the body of Jesus from the tomlbif it might have b. en obtained. Thus the torab re-1 on ;;.ains an ^impeachable witness of the truthfulness of the testfimony of the di3Cip]es. jThe resurrection phenomenom as explained by meresubjective visions is still the favorite of many. Visionsin an emotional atmosphere, it is said, are very contagious. Such Pauls is pointed out to be. According to Renan, it I was Mary Magdalene who set the train of visions going. • 0He asserts th .t it was very natural for the disciples to [ such visions after they had travelled to the old fam^illar sights of Galilee, an^ that it* natural forsuch to die away after the excitement of t ^e crucifixion (and the dispersion of the band of twelve h d subsided. Inresponse to this, however, i^rofessor Orr points out thatthere is no reason to believe that the disciples were ex-pecting to see their Iaster. In these passages che resur-Irection h d been foretold: Mark 9;3, 10:34, 9:9,. i I 30. etc. ; W^^lt,TiF W?ur r e c 11 on of Jesus was cTearXyTo^e dfT- ~tinguished fro^i His reappearance to His disciples. Thus itwas on top of the deep incredulity of any such event thatthe- appearances really did occur. !:oreover, the visionsof the resurrected Lord were not misty, flighty affairs,but were in cases long interviev;s. Nor were they with ?en of nervous temperament, but with hardened men of thesea and with a hard-headed tax-gatherer and business manas we find in Matthew. j The proposed soluLion of the whole question as|set, for-Gh by tiie Hesu. rection Legend of the aythologicalschools i. worthy of passing observation. They propose thatthe Christian story was imported into Judaism from Babylon-ian myths and other similar Oriental s^-urces. Thruout theOrient there is a coiamon legend of the death and resurrectioncf a god ciised on Nature - the pa: sinfr. of winter and thejjadvent of spring. So they remove the last particl
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