Martin Hengel

Martin Hengel's new historical Jesus book, Jesus und das Judentum, concludes with a discussion of the witnesses to the resurrection (He wrote the work with his longtime colleague, Anna Maria Schwemer). This chapter and discussion comes at the end of a book where Hengel is stressing the self-conscious messianic nature of Jesus' ministry and actions. He begins his final content chapter with a careful walk through 1 Cor 15:3-8. He sees this confession Paul passed on as coming from the Jerusalem community, pointing to the eyewitness roots of the tradition.