Highly critical NT scholar Rudolf Bultmann- “the fact that the…

Highly critical NT scholar Rudolf Bultmann- “the fact that the first disciples came to believe in the resurrection.”

Atheistic NT scholar Gerd Ludemann concludes, “it may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’ death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ.”

Paula Fredriksen commented, “I know in their own terms what they saw was the risen Jesus. That’s what they say and then all the historical evidence we have afterwards attest to their conviction that that’s what they saw. I’m not saying that they really did see the raised Jesus. I wasn’t there. I don’t know what they saw. But I do know as a historian that they must have seen something.”