Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? – Dale Allison
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Dale Allison is an American historian and Christian theologian. His areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible. Allison is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (2013- ). (Wikipedia)
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0:00 – Can Historians Prove the Resurrection?
11:35 – Jesus’ Appearance to Peter
16:08 – The 500 Witnesses
26:09 – Who are ‘The 12’?
30:18 – The Mythological Development View
37:09 – Is John 21 a Later Addition?
42:15 – What Genre are the Post-Resurrection Narratives?
48:44 – Can Visions Be Real?
57:00 – The Mass Resurrection of Holy Ones in Matthew 27
01:10:54 – The Accelerated Disintegration Theory
01:15:32 – Were There Guards at Jesus’ Tomb?
01:18:29 – Paul’s View on the Resurrected Jesus?
01:21:48 – The Best Naturalist Account of Jesus’ Resurrection
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August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
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@raythevagabond3724
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Was ever taken in consideration that Jesus was in the state of apparent death when he was brought to the rock-cut tomb?
Or at least had such low life signs (pulse) that he seemd to be dead. Maybe not impossible due to possible exhaustion combined with lost blood.
For all of you who experienced the search of their own car in a parking building (despite parking it yourself earlier) … might it be possible that those who visited the rock-cut tomb and couldn't find Jesus in it or rather found it empty looked in the wrong tomb?
Last but not least … is it possible that the scripts shouldn't be taken literally but that it should be understoud like the following:
With the crucifixion of Jesus or at least when he died, many of his former followers began to lose faith in him and what he preached = Jesus died.
But later they came to the conclusion or convinced themself or eachother that it all made sense and therefor their faith came back = Jesus resurrection
Meanwhile Jesus (his body/the person) was and stayd to be dead. Just his "teachings" came back to live and was spread.
Like Jesus once commanded "at this place you shall build my church" and didn't mean a building (not literally) but was talking about creating a community who shall be tought his way, his sect (not yet religion).
@thecuriouscivilian
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
I cannot fathom how such a complex thinker can still believe in the supernatural. Blows my mind.
@charlesrosenbury231
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
55:31 Do you really believe God evolved? Jesus raised from the dead. He was a human. What SHOULD He look like?
@charlesrosenbury231
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
47:10 The willingness to discard stories as true with no evidence they are false is disturbing.
What reason could one possibly have for doubting the road to Emmaeus happend? The idea of God blinding people from seeing is found throughout the bible. It serves multiple purposes, which is common in biblical writing.
I get it that, as a story, it cannot be historically or archeologically proven. That does not make it doubtful.
If one asserts a record to be false, one should really have more reason than "it seems improbable."
@charlesrosenbury231
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
19:30 the reason the vision of 500 matters is not because it says it happened. It is the sort of casial way it says it.
If one was present to see one of these miracles, one will be hard-pressed to disbelieve it. But if one was not present, one will be unlikely to believe it.
Human nature has not changed. It is written as a casual reference. The assumption is that anyone who wants to can just go ask someone who was there.
If it were not true, what kind of persuasive power would it have? The off-hand nature lends to its credibility.
@charlesrosenbury231
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
16:40 Jesus ascended and was not to return. It is expected that Jesus would not bodily return. Paul had to have a vision.
@FaustoPortoghesi
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
If an authentic human "bodily resurrection" ever happened in HISTORY there would be TESTABLE HISTORICAL data for such an implausible event of cosmic magnitude greater than anything else ever recorded , rather than just biblical stories written between 40 to 60 years after the alleged events of 33 AD , by anonymous scribes. 1): Argument from an empty tomb ? A hypothetical empty tomb would certainly NOT suggest any "bodily resurrection". It would simply imply that the followers of jesus decided to remove jesus dead body and re-bury it somewhere else in a secret location for fear that jesus' many enemies could desecrate his body had they known where he was buried. 2): If an actual "bodily resurrection" ever happened the news of a dead and partially decomposed human corpse would have spread like wildfire throughout the Roman Empire of that time, this news of such extraordinary event of cosmic magnitude , would have reached Rome and the attention of the Roman Emperor Tiberius within weeks of happening , rather than decades after it allegedly happened , this news would have caught the attention of all Roman and Jewish philosophers , historians , physicians and scholars of that time , who obviously would have travelled from Rome to Judaea to interview these so-called "eyewitnesses" , these Roman and Jewish historians would have taken notes of details of all these "eyewitnesses" testimonies and they would have compared notes of different testimonies to verify their authenticity, credibility and accuracy , rather than ignoring these rumors for decades after the event allegedly happened in 33 AD. In fact there are NO contemporary Roman or Jewish historians / philosophers or physicians who lived in the first half of the 1st century AD , who ever mentioned any jesus from Nazareth , and there are NO contemporary Roman or Jewish historians who ever wrote anything about an authentic human "bodily resurrection" ever happened in HISTORY. WHY NOT ? Because these biblical stories did NOT exist YET in the first half of the 1st century AD. These biblical stories of a "bodily resurrection" of jesus would have been made up ONLY decades after the alleged events. And obviously NONE of these contemporary Roman or Jewish historians could possibly have known about this story of an alleged human "bodily resurrection" that was YET to come ! 🤔
@Caleb-xf5yn
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
There are far too many nuances going on in the Gospels depending on certain writer's perspectives. But they are all true. For example, the Jews considered tax collectors among their own people as traitors and pariah dogs, and that's what Matthew was when Jesus came up to him sitting at his tax table and said Follow Me! So that when he writes his own account of the Gospel he is sure to add the fact that Jesus SAW A MAN! Jesus did not see Matthew as a pariah dog.
@Caleb-xf5yn
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Go tell the disciples AND PETER is especially for Peter who denied Him. Jesus wanted Peter to know this because Peter must have thought Jesus wouldn't want to have anything to do with him after his denial. It was to build his faith back up as Jesus told Peter he would pray that his faith might not fail.
@fabovondestory
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
500 WITNESSES 🚬🚬🚬
@MrGobledeeGoop
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Early belief, multiple retellings, and the disciples’ change don’t prove a resurrection any more than differing gospel details prove fabrication — both sides lean on shaky assumptions, false dilemmas, and arguments from silence. The data can fit multiple explanations, so certainty on either extreme is more worldview than evidence.
@lhuff482
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Sort of related but not, I just learned that Thomas Jefferson wrote his own copy of the Bible and left out the miracles and the resurrection.
@Jingleschmiede
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Science is not a worldview and if there is no scientific evidence for a resurrection, than there was none. Doesn't matter how strong you believe in it. And AFAIK history cannot be unscientific. History and fiction shouldn't merge. 🙂 If I would be a strong believer in aliens, that doesn't mean, the pyramides were built by aliens.
@williambigger1545
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
The raising of the holy ones could be a metaphor for the event of salvation . Ie all the souls waiting in purgatory or sheol were raised to heaven at once
@williambigger1545
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
After he brought up the thing about intersubjective visions I wish you'd brought up your conversation with annaka Harris 😭😭
@williambigger1545
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
If we consider the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus to be strong, then we should also take seriously other spiritual traditions that report similar phenomena. Jesus is not the only son of God. 🙏 Ramana Maharshi, the Indian master, was reportedly seen by disciples after death — and these accounts are far more recent than those of Christ.
@justdavelewis
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
On "Who are 'The 12'" section, Allison feels the german explanation is a little convoluted, and I'd tend to agree if you come at it from that angle.
However, I think a far less convoluted explanation is: the narrative is fictional. Paul (granting the letters are genuine and he's a historical figure) had no idea about the betrayal story, because it never happened. The gospels were written decades later, perhaps even into the second century.
The only things that people (except mythicists) agree on is:
– Yeshua was an apocalyptic prophet
– He was crucified
Alex, if you read this, you should talk to someone like Robyn Walsh, or M David Litwa to get an idea of what these gospels actually are.
Obviously, Allison is a world class scholar and has forgotten far more about the bible than I will ever know, however I can't help but feel he gives the gospels and the new testament historical credence than it deserves.
All that being said, Allison's explanation here about 12 not being exact is a reasonable one, 'The 12' could very well just be a known title, but it does raise a very fair question about Judas.
@nething94
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Call Garry Habermas
@Sean-xr1xj
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Wow this dude is awesome – love how he views things on a probability scale rather than just they happened or they didn't
@NumberSix-l5h
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Let us say for the sake of argument that there was no resurrection what mattered is that Jesus believed He would be resurrected. Because this Jewish rabbi and carpenter believe He would be resurrected He literally Committed suicide by Jew in order to gain the right to change Jewish law and prophecy By being the fulfillment of both as such a pretty much voided the entire Old Testament which has since become to the Christian simply cultural backgroand not necessarily accurate history. Remember Jesus came for the lost sheep i.e. the Jews. He didn't come for the Buddhist he didn't come for the
Hindus he didn't come for the Taoist he did not come for anyone but the lost sheep Why? Because apparently the Jews were talking smack about God. So how much of the Old Testament is reliable we don't really know but we do know that some of it was referenced by Jesus. So Jesus changed the law to love one another Or do unto others as you would have done unto you. Jesus was the original pacifist And it turns out that when you kill all of the pacifists all you have left over are warriors hence the crusades and a 1000 years of hell on earth because people rejected Jesus. The resurrection is actually once people decided that they could be pacifist again and hopefully not get killed, and if they did get killed that they would live again even if only Symbolically as deciples of peace. (My sister in England is one of these, she will die at the hands of the 1400 year old death cult we alowed to invade the west. I can't get her to move to the USA.)
However why did so many who said Jesus was resurrected, die for a lie?
@BeccaJaneXOXO
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Great video!
@thepotager9816
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
What about the evidence of the shroud?
@frankrobinson8852
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
8:29 they were most likely a herd of pigs belonging to the Romans and would’ve been well accounted for. There most likely would’ve been something written up at the time, had it happened. That we don’t have that documentation, is neither here nor there, but it’s definitely one that COULD be proven.
Maybe I’m being pedantic? 😂
@TimTimAfola
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Proverbs 3:5-8 NLT
[5] Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. [6] Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. [7] Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. [8] Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
@Truth_Tradition24
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Hey Alex, 👋 this is Jackson from the Truth & Tradition Podcast. I am on a mission to watch every one of your videos and leave a comment on each of them.
This was such a great conversation. I hadn't heard about the Gardener stole the body theory, so that was interesting!
You should bring in Sean McDowell to talk about the Apostle's Martyrdom. This is a big part of the argument for the Resurrection, and his book "The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus," is the best in discussing this. So many people think that all the Disciples were Martyrd except John, as per Fox's Book of Martyrs, but his book shows this is far from what the historical record shows.
@charlesbadrock
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
No was Barbara Graham innocent and wrongfully executed Yes
@ricardopena4961
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
“Extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence.” Nothing even close exists for the resurrection. The rest are just appeals to an extremely remote possibility to justify a belief in the supernatural.
@josephsellers5978
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Did David Copperfield actually make the Statue of Liberty disappear? Even if you could establish that this event happened, you have no credible source for time or cause of death. If I were to make the concession that the event happened, I'd be more inclined to believe they just witnessed a magician and his helpers perform a trick.
@vsakmadhu7181
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
I hope for humanity to come out of this delusion.
@Guerry78
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Dale is gay. He is hardly an objective critic. He can’t admit that Jesus is God because it would require him to abandon his sinful lifestyle
@6tuf85dyfu
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
I appreciate you approaching these discussions openly and in an informed manner.
@petersinclair3997
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
When it is alleged Jesus appeared to the eleven or twelve in physical form, would he have been clothed? He would have been naked on the cross and wrapped in shroud, when buried.
@HowNoahSeesIt
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Amazing. Get this guy on again! Seriously, we are missing more people with brutal intellectual honesty!! Such a breath of fresh air and a very interesting conversation.
@Noyb.265
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Lol. Of course not. Don't be silly.
People don't rise from the dead – especially common myths like jesus.
The End.
@tongakhan230
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
Dead persons cannot do anything. God was the one who resurrected Jesus from his state of non-existence. Acts 2:32.
@theofficialness578
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 am
I don’t know how else to say this, but bluntly… all of history, that didn’t involve instant. Communication cannot be over all trusted.
The game “telephone” is a simple demonstration of that.
Why is strictly paper written history, untrustworthy also, simple it took a lot more steps for cross examining, the reaching of eyes, ect… education itself was snails pace, dependent on written text..
Compared to when it was a simple phone call… morse code communication, it means these events are recorded with accuracy to the best approximation.
Now it’s just database that has everything accurately stored as it was said in that moment of a vast number of humans…
We are still in the infancy of accurately recorded history.
For example, I can’t claim I made this comment, it really doesn’t take much to prove without a doubt that I did… so the point is say so and so wrote that they saw this, or observed this or learned this, still yes, a human claim, but there’s no questions about if the claim was made and by who.
The same can’t be applied to the mass majority of human history.
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