Episode Details

Robyn Faith Walsh, professor of New Testament at the University of Miami, discusses how people in antiquity would have understood the concept of "resurrection", whether Jesus or Paul was the true founder of Christianity and what Paul meant when he said that we will be raised with "spiritual bodies", and what facts the historian can establish concerning the events before and after Jesus' death.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:07 Can historians verify miracles?

00:06:37 Did the ancients take their myths literally?

00:08:31 What did Paul think about the resurrection?

00:19:22 Did Paul preach a spiritual resurrection?

00:25:56 Do historians take the case for the resurrection seriously?

00:44:18 Fact #1: Was Jesus crucified?

00:46:56 Fact #2: Was Jesus buried in a tomb?

00:52:10 Fact #3: Was Jesus' tomb found empty?

00:54:35 Fact #4: Did Jesus' followers report appearances of Jesus alive?

01:00:00 Fact #5: The origin of the Christian faith

01:06:07 Was Paul the real founder of Christianity?

01:08:00 How to be objective when studying Jesus