Someone stole the body!

[Pat Mustard]

Our cleaner at work died recently. If she wandered in during tomorrow's meeting, tidied the bins, did the washing up and generally cleared up the mess, while we poked her occasionally to make sure she wasn't a ghost, you would have anastasis. That event would completely shake everything everyone believed about death, religion, How Things Worked...

That's exactly the sort of thing the disciples said happened. Several times.

No. That's the sort of thing we have third hand accounts which allege that the disciples said. A much different thing altogether. If you were told person a murdered person b by person c, who heard it off of person d, who said they overheard it in a pub, would you believe what you were just told? Because that is what you are saying we should believe.

And even if you found actual writings of an actual disciple stating same, that is still not evidence of Yeshua dying and then resurrecting, because a) a person's attestation is not evidence in and of itself, and b) ancient Hebrews knew so little of medicine or biology that you cannot rule out the idea that they thought Yeshua was dead when he was simply unconscious (erroneous declarations of death and accidental burials have been recorded as recently as the 1890's). Your acceptance on the unverified word of others is simply not enough.