Who Would *Invent* the Idea that Women (?!) Discovered Jesus’ Empty Tomb?

 

Back to Christian apologists for a minute (from my post a few days ago).  One common argument that the resurrection stories must be historical is that no one would invent the idea that the first witnesses to the resurrection were women; therefore the tomb really was empty (i.e. since no one would have made up the story that way).  I get asked about that probably once every four or five months.  I dealt with it on the blog — in fact exactly eight years ago.  Here is the question I was asked abo...