Fascinating. It's amazing how much one can be ignorant about growing up within a religious bubble where significant scholarship is excluded from your awareness -- even if you think you're open-minded! Robert Conner argues successfully, in my opinion, that whoever wrote the New Testament gospels constructed them by drawing on the cultural beliefs and motifs around ghosts at the time. The implications of this, along with a whole range of scholarship about the resurrection of Jesus, that the resurrection of Jesus as a historical event is almost impossible to defend -- at least with any objective evidence. Conner writes with clarity and conciseness and is a pleasure to read. Highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in the resurrection of Jesus and who is open to reading something that challenges their ideas. ( )