Campenhausen rightly dismisses as a scholarly fiction.15 Not only is there no evidence for this assumption, it’s inherently implausible. Can you imagine the disciples fleeing from the Garden of Gethsemane, grabbing their things, and not stopping till they got all the way back to Galilee? Moreover, Dr. Lüdemann’s own theory contradicts this assumption, since it is crucial for his theory that at least Peter remained in Jerusalem, where he denied Jesus. Third, Dr. Lüdemann assumes that the Jewish
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