True, the views of these famous scholars have not gone unchallenged. Yet, to generalize, the challengers have seldom made the same impact as the radical views they have attempted to answer. Apart from a few notable exceptions, the New Testament academy has adopted this skepticism as its critical orthodoxy.3 For these scholars the “resurrection” represents a wall between the historical Jesus and Paul the apostle, separating the one from the other. They see the Jesus-Paul discontinuity as part of the