Anglican scholar John Wenham's detective work in the Bible and on the ground Jerusalem lie behind his pictured 1992 book titled Easter Enigma and so also behind our Bible study by that name.
The New Testament offers essentially five accounts of Jesus’s post-resurrection appearances and the events around them. Critics say the five accounts are so contradictory that they cannot be brought into harmony. None of the accounts is exhaustive, but each is fragmentary and yet also true and sufficient. And, there are plausible explanations for what seem to be contradictions. In other words, we can solve the mystery of the accounts, what has been called “The Easter Enigma”. See the parallels handout below for a comparison of some of the accounts, and see what seeming contradictions you detect. Then, take a look at the study handout and follow along with the audio recordings of the study that was conducted at Pilgrim on Sunday mornings during the Easter season of 2012.
Early Easter Morning Parallels Handout
Easter Enigma Handout
Week 8 — June 3, 2012
Audio
Week 7 — May 27, 2012
Audio
Week 6 — May 20, 2012
Audio
Week 5 — May 13, 2012
Audio
Week 4 — May 6, 2012
Audio (some preceding off-topic discussion was not recorded)
Week 3 — April 29, 2012
Audio
Week 2 — April 22, 2012
Audio
Week 1 — April 15, 2012
Audio
