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Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE EMPTY TOMB

CHAPTER 1: Historical Credibility

CHAPTER 2: Independent Accounts

CHAPTER 3: Mark’s Account and The Embarrassment of

Women Witnesses

CHAPTER 4: The Jewish Polemic

PART II: POST-MORTEM APPEARANCES

CHAPTER 5: Peter, the Disciples, and the Five Hundred

CHAPTER 6: James and Other Apostles, Including Saul of Tarsus

CHAPTER 7: Conclusions

PART III: THE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

CHAPTER 8: Convictions of a Promised Messiah and

the Resurrection Itself

CHAPTER 9: The Inconsistencies

PART IV: EXPLAINING THE EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 10: Assessing Hypotheses

CHAPTER 11: Conspiracy Hypothesis

CHAPTER 12: Apparent Death Hypothesis

CHAPTER 13: Displaced Body Hypothesis

CHAPTER 14: Hallucination Hypothesis

CHAPTER 15: Resurrection Hypothesis

CONCLUSION

ENDNOTES

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