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RESURRECTION- AND ASCENSION-NARRATIVES
of fact, least of all n fact of such importance and one
with regard to which they alotre were in a position to
give evidence.
(b) y t less wide of the mark is theother explanation
of Pauls silence upon the empty sepulchre, that the
idea of a ieauimation of the dead hody did not fit in
with his theology. If it were indeed the fact that his
theology war opposed to thir, it is nevertheless true
that thir theology of his came into being only after his
conversion to Christianity. When he first came to
know of Jesus a5 risen he war still a Jew and therefore
conceived of resurrection at all in no other way than
ieanimatio~ the body (g 17