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Does being seen alive after death equal resurrection?

Seen actually alive after apparent death:

  • Aristeas (c.680 BCE) – to a man on the road to Croton

  • Aristeas (c.673 BCE) – to witnesses in Proconnesus

  • Antiochus IV (163 BCE) (source: 1Maccabees)

  • Paul of Tarsus (c. 49 CE) (source: Acts14:19)

  • Niger of Perea (67 CE) (source: Josephus)

  • Yohanan ben Zakkai (69 CE) (source: Talmud,, Avot R. Nathan)

  • Josephus' crucified friend (70 CE) (source: Josephus)

Seen apparently alive after actual death:

  • Romulus (c.717 BCE) – to Proculus on the road outside Rome

  • Theseus (490 BCE) – to soldiers at the Battle of Marathon

  • Castor & Pollux (489 BCE) – at the Battle of Lake Regullis and the Roman Forum

  • Aristeas (c.433) – to witnesses in Metapontum

  • Castor & Pollux (168, 101 and 48 BCE) – at the Roman Forum

  • Alexander, son of Herod (c.1 CE) – an imposter, believed by many

  • Elijah (c.33 CE) – in the form of John the Baptist and Jesus

  • John the Baptist (c.33 CE) – in the form of Jesus

  • Jeremiah (c.33 CE) – in the form of Jesus

  • Moses (c.33 CE) – to Peter

  • Risen saints (c.33 CE) – to many in Jerusalem

  • Nero (c.75 CE) – an imposter, believed by many

  • Jesse James (1948) – an imposter, believed by many

  • Mary of Nazareth  (1968) – to hundreds in Zeitun, Egypt

  • Mary of Nazareth (2009) – to hundreds in Warrak, Egypt

Seen in visions and dreams

  • Moses and Elijah (c.33 CE) to Peter

  • A “man of Macedonia” (c.35 CE) to Paul

  • Achilles (c.68 CE) to Apollonius

  • Apollonius (c.100) to his disciples

  • Nero (105) to Fannius

  • Ignatius (c.107) to his disciples

  • Pliny's mother-in-law (c.110 CE) to Pliny

  • Apollonius (c.274) to Aurelian


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