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It\u2019s often forgotten that there\u2019s another early Old World witness to the Resurrection of Christ, quite independent from the accounts given by the four gospels: some of the early verses of chapter fifteen in Paul\u2019s first letter to the Corinthians. \u00a0(Notice, for example, that it omits mention of the women at the tomb \u2014 and, indeed, of any women at all. \u00a0Perhaps the omission can be explained by the fact that Paul was a Pharisee \u2014 effectively an ancient Jewish lawyer \u2014 and that women\u2019s testimony was of little if any value in his world.)<\/p>\n
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The letter\u00a0probably dates to between AD 53 and AD 57, which puts it well within\u00a0twenty five years\u00a0of the Resurrection, and possibly within twenty. \u00a0Moreover, it claims to be discussing material that Paul had taught to the Corinthians earlier, and that he himself had received much earlier still. \u00a0We\u2019re getting fairly close, therefore, to the actual event.<\/p>\n
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Paul is actually calling, as he says, on still-living witnesses. \u00a0There is little room here for creative, fact-free myth-building or for the very gradual emergence of folk-legends.<\/p>\n
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