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It just seems implausible that Mark could sneak in women, but not men.

What kind of objection would the latter have evoked? 'Ah, but see these disciples are male, and that means they were in hiding'.

Could you clarify your reasoning here a bit?

I think the women as first witnesses came from the knowledge the disciples (all males) were then either in hiding or going home to Galilee. Who was left? Women followers are good candidates ... I'm a little skeptical of this reasoning...to whom would Mark have to concede this? Who knew all specific...

My own original thought: Women were used in the story, because women would have been less likely to have been thought to have carried the body away. James McGrath also makes that point in his 2008 'The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith'. My own view is that Mark used women for the reasons I listed...

This argument seems weak to me for a few reasons: 1) Mk 16.8 says that the women told no one about the grave, meaning it is Mark's purpose to undermine the women. This counts as evidence of fiction, since Mark couldn't have known of the story if the participants never spoke a word about it. What Mar...

One of the reasons I am not a mythicist is that it just seems mythicists try too hard...like they're explaining away rather than explaining....avoiding historicity rather than finding good reasons to argue against it. This thread seems to illustrate that, imho.

I'd recommend the following two articles: Daniel A. Smith 2010.'Seeing a Pneuma(tic Body): The Apologetic Interests of Luke 24.36-43', Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72/4, 752-72. Deborah Thompson Prince 2007. 'The 'Ghost' of Jesus: Luke 24 in Light of Ancient Narratives of Post-Mortem Apparitions' Jou...

Will read and maybe offer some thoughts

I haven't read this entire thread or Peter Kirby's thread. I only read his article.

But if it helps, in addition to the Rufus mentioned in Romans, what of the Jerusalem ossuary of 'Alexander, son of Simon'?

Well, here's the table of contents, for anyone that might find anything interesting. After I've read it, I may post some thoughts. Preface - Gerald A. Larue Introduction: The Life of Jesus Research - R. Joseph Hoffmann PART I: THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS The Historicity of Jesus - G. A. Wells The Histo...

Well, just ordered it used. I'm especially curious what in the world George Mendenhall and David Noel Freedman (!) had to say relating to this...