Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Part I Setting the Stage 1
1 Overture 3
2 Options 8
Part II Historical-Critical Studies 23
3 Formulae and Confessions 25
4 Appearances and Christophanies 46
5 The Story of the Tomb: Friday 94
6 The Story of the Tomb: Sunday 116
7 Resurrected Holy Ones? 167
8 Rudolf Pesch Redivivus? 183
Part III Thinking with Parallels 207
9 Apparitions: Characteristics and Correlations 209
10 Visions: Protests and Proposals 236
11 Enduring Bonds 262
12 Rainbow Body 272
13 Cessationism and Seeing Jesus 286
14 Zeitoun and Seeing Mary 294
Part IV Analysis and Reflections 301
15 Some Tenuous Arguments: Apologetical 303
16 Some Tenuous Arguments: Skeptical 323
17 Inferences and Competing Stones 336
18 Overreach and Modest Results 353
Coda 364
Index of References 366
Index of Authors 385
Index of Subjects 400