İsa-Mesih’in Ölümden Dirilmesi Hakikat mi Mitoloji mi? İsa’nın Ölümden Dirilişi ve Taraftarlarına Görülmesiyle İlgili Rivayetlerinin Tarihsel Açıdan Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

As is well know the resuurection of Jesus is the central point of the Christianity. Its significance in the church and in theology is immense. Since the church derives its right to exist from the authority bestowed on it by the resurrected and ascended Christ and this Christ stil serves academic theology as a guarentee for theological epistemology. By taking into account the significance of issue of the resurrection of Jesus from dead after his cruxifiction we can say that in today’s Christianty everything quite simply depends on the event of the resurrection of Jesus. Because of this importance of this event for Christianity we wanted to answer what really happened to Jesus after his cruxifiction by the Roman governer Pontus Pilatus by analaysing deeply Christian accounts which are found both canonic and non-canonic sacred writings and evaluate them from the historical point of view. In the end of our examination of these sources we reached the following conclusion. The resurrection of Jesus did not involve the resusciation of his body after his dead. Belief in Jesus’s resurrection did not depend on what happened to his body. The resurrection was not an event that happened on the first Easter Sunday. Since the earlier strata of the New Testament contain no appearence stories of Jesus to his followers, it does not seem necessary for Christians faith to believe the literal veracity of any of the later narratives concerning this event.