Jesus's Resurrection as Postmortem Vindication for a Righteous Martyr

A Proposal for Jewish-Christian Dialogue

In last week’s post, I wrote about the resurrection of Jesus in terms of what we can and can’t know about it from our primary sources (Paul, Mark, Matthew and Luke as extensions of Mark, and John). I suggested that the Pauline theory of resurrection as pneumatic metamorphosis of Jesus’s flesh-and-blood body into a pure body of spirit, capable of indwell…