Dr. Bock, I know you believe that Jesus was resurrected. But could you, for the sake of argument, outline what a legitimate discovery of Jesus' body would look like? My concern is that, thin as the evidence for this particular tomb is (and I agree, it is), there are assumptions that might prevent any tomb discovery from disproving the accounts of the resurrection in the NT.

Do you think there could be an archaeological find which, while not putting the nail in the proverbial coffin, might seriously challenge the accounts in the NT? (The problem being that we're relying on these documents to interpret the archaeology and vice versa.)

And...if there is no such possible find, what does that say about the historical grounding of the belief in the resurrection?

Thanks!

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