"The Dead Are Raised" (Matthew 11:5 // Luke 7:22): Resuscitation Accounts in the Gospels and Eyewitness Testimony

The criterion of multiple attestation supports the claim that persons believed dead were resuscitated in Jesus's ministry. One might wish to count the historiographic principle of analogy against the earliness of this tradition, but there are in fact analogies for such experiences today. It is incontrovertible that significant numbers of eyewitnesses in numerous cultures offer claims of resuscitations in theistic contexts today. Philosophic and theological explanations of these experiences vary, but the analogies suggest that one need not attribute all resuscitation accounts to late, legendary accretions.