So, let us summarized these non-Christian accounts of a resurrection. For each supposedly "resurrected" person, the following table shows the level of evidence associated with their resurrection account, expressed as a fraction of the evidence we have for Christ's resurrection:
Name of the person | The level of evidence |
Apollonius of Tyana | 1/30th |
Zalmoxis | 1/60th |
Aristeas | 1/24th |
Mithra | 0 |
Osiris | 1/60th |
Dionysus | 1/60th |
Krishna | 1/24th |
Bodhidharma | 1/60th |
Puhua | 1/60th |
Here's how this looks like in a histogram:
What does all this tell us? Quite a bit - we'll discuss that starting next week.
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