A fundamentalist reading of the apparitions of Jesus tries to explain the conflicting accounts through harmonization; but the careful and critical reader quickly sees that this is simply an impossible task. These stories are not “historical†in nature, but rather “theological†(or ideological). The gospel writers clearly had an agenda; they wanted to convince people of their point of view. One way Christians sought to legitimize their claims about Jesus was through the use of the Hebrew Bible. In a sense, Jewish texts (but also other Greco-Roman stories) served as templates from which the gospel writers created their own stories about Jesus. In the podcast, we also try to understand belief in the resurrection from a cultural anthropological perspective, and briefly speak of how cognition and culture play a role in [...]