Early textual witnesses to the postResurrection appearances don't all insist a somatic experience. Josephus and the Longer Ending Of Mark use verbs of appearance. Matthew glides it over; and if Rodgers is right (and that "if" is massive) then so does that projection of UrMark.
Somatic Christ is manifest in Luke 24 and John 20, and which - from a third Gospel - Ignatius preaches to Smyrna. UPDATE 4/8: For John, more than we know...
Atkins notes that asomatic Christ is preached in the Acts of John, in the Second Apocalypse of John, and by Clement Alexandrine as Cassidorus translated in Adumbrations. These, Atkins claims, derive from 1 John 1:1. This author introduces Ὃ ἦν ἀπ' ἀρχῆς, which we have heard but then - which we have seen with our eyes and... which our hands have felt
, concerning the Word Of Life
. This begs: how tactile, is a Logos?
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