Talk:Post-resurrection appearances of Jesus

message: Appears to be a well referenced source for explaining the view the first believers who considered the resurrection as an actual physical event. 
 Devotion to Jesus in earliest Christianity
 University of Edinburgh’s Larry Hurtado
In this 500+ page plus book the author discusses with generous amount of references that Christ’s exalted status  is neither a later development nor a borrowing from other cults around the Mediterranean. Included are extensive references indicating the earliest church and their followers in Jerusalem (where many the witnesses mentioned in first Corinthians 15 were active),  did actually believe that Jesus's resurrection  from the dead was indeed a physical one.  
The belief that Jesus' resurrection was only a spiritual resurrection was instead a later development.
Among the other things that he makes note of  is Council of Jerusalem in c. 49AD, the matter of dispute between Paul, Peter and James was not Jesus' divinity or the connection between Jesus' life and scriptural prophesy, nor  the bodily resurrection. These things were apparently argued much later and not by those that were part of the initial group. Instead the Council revolved around the question of Gentile participation in the sect, and whether or not they should be "Torah compliant."   
(Larry Weir Hurtado FRSE (December 29, 1943 – November 25, 2019) was an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Professor 1996–2011))
SteamWiki (talk) 01:19, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources 

message: The article currently has this: '...in which the young man discovered in the tomb instructs the women to tell "the disciples and Peter" that Jesus will see them again in Galilee, hints that the author may have known of the tradition of 1 Thessalonians.' Could somebody clarify what this is about? Browsing through 1 Thessalonians, I don't see any obvious connection, reference to Galilee, etc.--2603:8000:8900:6E00:4072:6456:BCCC:89BF (talk) 22:18, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: unclear statement about 1 Thessalonians

message: The contents of the articles are the same, and require mirror edits to maintain. As stated several times now. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 01:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: So you abandoned your original argument that the topics were the same. Now regarding your argument "The contents of the articles are the same": when two articles on different topics have the same content, that may mean that they have to be reorganized. Maybe "Resurrection of Jesus" should focus on what the resurrection means for Christians, with a religious perspective, while "Post-resurrection appearances" should focus on the biblical accounts and how scholars interpret these texts. There is abundant literature and it can be a very good article. We can obviously discuss this further. What do you think? SanctumRosarium (talk) 09:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It would mean that the description of the appearances in the resurrection-article would be very short; that's possible, but it would also mean that the 'interpretation' belongs to the resurrection-article. More apt would be to provide background-info on the presentation of the appearances in the NT. For example, Charles E. Neff, I A Different Form: The Unrecognizable Jesus of the Post-Resurrection Tradition argues that the description of Jesus first not being recognized fits in with a belief that the resurrected body will be a transformed body, 'lighting-up by the good character of the person'(paraphrase; I don't recall exactly what this author argues). It's interesting, given the connection with Paulus and his insistence on a transformed body: where the appearnces informed/prefigured by the beliefs/expecttaions these people had? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 10:10, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal