Jesus Beyond the Grave
• Skeptics & Atheists
A review of The Empty Tomb quotes an early Roman response to the Easter story:
We must examine this question, whether anyone who really died ever rose again with the same body . . . . After death he rose again and showed the marks of his punishment. But who saw this? A hysterical female, and perhaps some other one of those who were deluded by the same sorcery, who either dreamt in a certain state of mind and through wishful thinking had a hallucination . . . or, which is more likely, wanted to impress the others by telling this fantastic tale, and so to provide a chance for other beggars.