Easter Resources 2022

A couple of years ago, I wrote a short post about which evidence for Jesus' resurrection we should focus on the most. Steve Hays wrote a lengthier article about making a case for the resurrection. Those are some potential starting points for studying Easter issues.

Here are some examples of other Easter issues we've addressed:

Evidence That The Risen Jesus Was Heard And Touched, Not Just Seen, Including In 1 Corinthians 15
The Timing Of The Conversion Of Jesus' Brothers And Their Witness To The Resurrection
Problems With A Hallucination Hypothesis
Were the resurrection appearances grief hallucinations?
Modern Evidence For A Traditional View Of Easter
Miracles On Video
The Fifth Gospel
Evidence For The Shroud Of Turin
How do we know Jesus' resurrection wasn't a demonic miracle?
How much can we trust ancient Christian sources in light of their biases?
Early Non-Extant Documents On The Resurrection
The Context In Which The Gospels Were Composed
How Early The Synoptics And Acts Were Written
The Authorship Of Matthew
The Authorship Of Mark
The Authorship Of Luke And Acts
The Authorship Of John
The Authorship Of The Pauline Letters (see the comments section)
The Historicity Of Acts
Easter Material Corroborated In The Letters Of Peter
Resurrection Evidence Outside The New Testament
Evidence For The Empty Tomb
Early Affirmation Of The Empty Tomb From Gentile Non-Christians
Jesus' Burial And Empty Tomb Outside The Gospels And Acts
Fifty Agreements Among The Resurrection Accounts
The Consistencies Among The Resurrection Accounts In 1 Corinthians 15, The Gospels, And Acts
The Restrained Nature Of The Resurrection Accounts
The Contrast Between The Prominence Of Female Witnesses In Luke And Their Lack Of Prominence In Acts
Alleged Errors And Contradictions In The Resurrection Accounts
Harmonizing The Resurrection Accounts
Why It's Significant That The Earliest Sources Don't Narrate The Resurrection Appearance To James
Evidence That Saul Of Tarsus Saw Jesus Risen From The Dead
The Spiritual Body Of 1 Corinthians 15
Why didn't the risen Jesus appear to more and different people?
Why doesn't Jesus appear to everybody?
Matthew 27:52-53
Independent, Converging Lines Of Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection
How The Apostles Died
What if alleged miracles, like Jesus' resurrection, were caused by a currently unknown natural process?
Easter Prophecy Fulfillment
Reviews Of Debates On Jesus' Resurrection

Go here for an archive of our posts with the Easter label. And search for posts with other labels by replacing the word Easter in the URL with another phrase (Empty Tomb, Crucifixion, etc.). You can keep seeing more posts by clicking on Older Posts at the bottom of the screen.

We've written some e-books that are partly or entirely about Easter. See the e-books section of the sidebar on the right side of the screen.

I've written some articles on skeptical myths about the church fathers. Some of those posts address topics closely related to Easter.

Here are the Easter Resources posts from previous years:

2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

After the post from 2021 linked above, I wrote about Steve Hays' contribution to Easter. I then discussed some neglected evidence for the empty tomb. In another post, I discussed one of the reasons why the early Christians are unlikely to have made up the accounts of Jesus' resurrection body retaining his crucifixion wounds. I also addressed evidence that the resurrection appearances, including the ones in 1 Corinthians 15, involved hearing and touching the risen Jesus, not just seeing him. A later post discussed some unusual agreements in terminology among the Easter passages in the gospels. Then I addressed how Luke's writings offer a good illustration of the evidential nature of the ordinariness of Jesus' resurrection body. I quoted some comments from Charles Spurgeon on the significance of the garden setting of Jesus' suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. A later post quoted Augustine commenting on some prophecy fulfillments related to Easter. I then linked a video in which Jonathan McLatchie and Tim and Lydia McGrew discuss many issues related to the resurrection. Another post linked a video by Mike Winger discussing the historicity of Mark's account of the burial of Jesus. And here's a post about Michael Brown's response to Tovia Singer on the reference to seeing seed in Isaiah 53:10. I linked some comments Mike Licona made about the status of Gary Habermas' upcoming multi-volume book on Jesus' resurrection. In a later post, I discussed the timing of the conversion of Jesus' brothers and whether any of them other than James saw the risen Jesus. And here's a post about a great video on the evidence for Jesus' resurrection produced by Than Christopoulos and several colleagues. The post supplements their arguments with some of my own. I then linked an article about the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the site of Jesus' burial.