I 'witnessed' the raising of the dead
The current debate about Jesus' resurrection is trapped between fact or fiction, actual event in history or pious fabrication. This articles provides an alternative framework for understanding the NT data by means of three insights. First, a neuroanthropological perspective is offered which und...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2011, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-28 |
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| Summary: | The current debate about Jesus' resurrection is trapped between fact or fiction, actual event in history or pious fabrication. This articles provides an alternative framework for understanding the NT data by means of three insights. First, a neuroanthropological perspective is offered which undermines our natural way of looking at vision and by supporting a picture on polyphasic cultures within the world of multiple cultural realities. Secondly, it provides a framework for appreciating visionary experiences as potential source for creating cultural realities and considers peoples' consensus realities as legitimate expression of what is real (to them). In this way an alternative framework is offered for understanding the data about Jesus' visionary appearances. Thirdly, an anthropological study on death divination among the Sisala clan of Ghana is offered as cross-cultural parallel for appreciating the role of alternate states of consciousness (ASCs) experiences in creating and maintaining consensual reality within polyphasic cultures. It is argued that for nearly two thousand years belief in Jesus' resurrection was maintained and transmitted like other cultural beliefs as the consensual reality of Christianity that needs no historical or scientific justification. However, the origin of resurrection belief is to be found in the visionary experiences of Jesus' first followers and in a neuroanthropological perspective these are not hallucinations but can be seen as culturally approved visual perceptions that were knowledge and reality constituting events. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83415 |