11), a fact confirmed by its concordance with the sermons reproduced by Luke in Acts, strongly suggests that the formula originated in the Jerusalem church. The fact that the formula recounts, according to Paul, the content of the earliest apostolic preaching ( I Cor 15. 3b-5), as is evident from the non-Pauline and Semitic characteristics it contains. In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (AD 56-57) he cites what is apparently an old Christian formula ( 1 Cor 15. In order to answer this question, we need to look first at one of the oldest traditions contained in the New Testament concerning the resurrection. But how credible is the evidence for the historicity of Jesus' empty tomb? Though some theologians still insist with Bultmann that the resurrection is not a historical event, this incident is certainly presented in the gospels as a historical event, one of the manifestations of which was that the tomb of Jesus was reputedly found empty on the first day of the week by several of his women followers this fact, at least, is therefore in principle historically verifiable. But in the last several years, a remarkable change seems to have taken place, and the scepticism that so characterized earlier treatments of this problem appears to be fast receding. Until recently the empty tomb has been widely regarded as both an offense to modern intelligence and an embarrassment for Christian faith an offense because it implies a nature miracle akin to the resuscitation of a corpse and an embarrassment because it is nevertheless almost inextricably bound up with Jesus' resurrection, which lies at the very heart of the Christian faith.
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