Advances in statistical analysis of a scripture episode

GUILLERMO A. FRANK, LUIS E. FRANK

Montreal

Congreso; Joint Statistical Meetings 2013; 2013

American Statistical Association

The biblical scene of the open sepulchre comes to us through four written narrations (Matthew 28:1-11, Mark 16:1-11, Luke 24:1-12 and Jn 20:1-18). The gospels inform us that the scene was eyewitnessed by several women (Mark 16:1, Luke 24:10), and was further inspected by Peter and the other disciple (Luke 24:12, John 20:3). Soon after, the announcement reached the "chief priests" (Matthew 28:11), and the "disciples comunity" (Luke 24:10, John 20:10). Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathea, or others, could have carried out the testimony from the Sanhedrin, and somehow mix it with the one at the disciples comunity. This could have been the basic material used in the writing process of the gospels.