Bill, I'd like to get your thoughts on an interview with Dr. Paula Fredrickson, talking about the

Apostle Paul.

Fredrickson is a prominent historian of early Christianity and considered quite liberal, at least by evangelical

standards. Have you interacted with her work? And if so, what can you tell us about her?

I really haven't interacted with Fredrickson's work because she hasn't written much

on the resurrection of Jesus, which is my area of interest. I have seen her

interviewed on some of these historical Jesus programs where she recognizes candidly that

something dramatic happened Easter morning, but she doesn't say what it is.

Yeah.

You know, in the apologetics community, she's known for just that.

She's best known for her statement to Peter Jennings when ABC interviewed her for a documentary.

This was in 2000, The Search for Jesus.

Commenting on the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus,

Frederickson said, quote,

I know in their own terms what they saw was the raised Jesus.

That's what they say, and then all the historic evidence we have afterwards

attest to their conviction that that's what they saw.

I'm not saying that they really did see the raise Jesus.

I wasn't there.

I don't know what they saw, but I do know that as an historian,

they must have seen something."

That's always been considered significant,

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