The Women At Jesus’ Empty Tomb Revisited

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The Argument From The Criterion Of Embarrassment

A common argument for the historicity of the empty tomb of Jesus is that all four gospels feature women as witnesses to the empty tomb, and women were (A) considered second class citizens in both first century Jewish and pagan circles, and (B) they were considered unreliable witnesses. We know this, for example, from Talmud Sotah 19a which says “Sooner let the words of the law be burnt than delivered to women“! The Ta...