The Resurrection

[Angrboda]

People believed a lot of things on hearsay back then. There were few centralized repositories of information and only the elites had access to them. So a story that some even happened is not likely based upon direct eyewitness testimony. The great historians like Josephus and Thucydides weren't embedded with the troops and they weren't doing in-depth interviews with generals. Information in the Ancient world was largely second-hand. So if someone reported Christ's crucifixion, and that report was widely spread, his reappearance alive at a later time is not as remarkable as it sounds. Deaths were not uncommonly reported and later found to be based upon faulty information. It isn't like today's military where a soldier being killed in action can be reported by way of a reasonably robust chain of information transmittal.