HaydenTE said:
That's quite possible, but it's still interesting.
Yes, there is a lot of weird stuff out there I think when you get into the 1st-2nd century Christianity (like the apocryphal gospels' miracle stories) and especially the Old Testament (like the Torah's trial by poison) that we often don't think about.
What is especially interesting for me is learning what the "original" story and set of beliefs about the resurrection were of the 1st century Christians that got rather misplaced or undervalued later. For example, what were the appearances to Peter and James that Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians?
Outside of Luke 24's mention of Simon seeing Jesus on Sunday, the mysterious "Gospel of the Hebrews" said that Jesus appeared to James and ate with him, so that James stopped fasting. Origen and Jerome both gave possible authority to that "Gospel", and Jerome translated it from Aramaic, but I believe that it was probably suppressed by the Church. For example, St. Cyril of Alexandria had the heretical Ebionites' version of this gospel destroyed. I wonder if the Vatican has this kind of thing stored away in its archives someplace.
