What is an overview of arguments for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? What is an overview of arguments for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus? Was Jesus' resurrection a historical fact? What do scholars and historians have to say about all this? Is there consensus among the majority of scholars or is this still a controversial topic?
Simon Greenleaf, one of the principal founders of the Harvard School of Law and author of the 3 volume &quot;A Treatise On The Law of Evidence&quot;, which is still considered a classic of American jurisprudence, also wrote a book entitled &quot;An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice.&quot;
In this book he applies U.S. trial court rules to the accounts of the 4 gospel eyewitness accounts and finds them not only acceptable witnesses, but exemplary as pertaining to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
There is far too much to even begin to cut and paste into an answer but a full, free pdf is available many places including here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34989/34989-pdf.pdf