Article assessing an historians study of Jesus

 The following quote is an exert from the article underlined and linked below. It deals with Gerd Ludermann's work on the historicity of Jesus. Gerd is an atheist New Testament historian. I have not read all of it but skipped through.

Visions of Jesus: A Critical Assessment of Gerd Lüdemann’s Hallucination Hypothesis

The appearance to Peter is independently attested by Paul and Luke (I Cor. 15.5; Lk. 24.34), the appearance to the Twelve by Paul, Luke, and John (I Cor. 15.5; Lk. 24:36–43; Jn. 20.19–20), the appearance to the women disciples by Matthew and John (Mt. 28.9–10; Jn. 20.11–17), and appearances to the disciples in Galilee by Mark, Matthew, and John (Mk. 16.7; Mt. 28. 16–17; Jn. 21). Taken sequentially, the appearances follow the pattern of Jerusalem–Galilee–Jerusalem, matching the festival pilgrimages of the disciples as they returned to Galilee following the Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread and traveled again to Jerusalem two months later for Pentecost.  

Lüdemann himself concludes, “It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’s death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ.”39 Thus, we are in basic agreement that following Jesus’s crucifixion various individuals and groups of people experienced appearances of Christ alive from the dead. The real bone of contention will be how these experiences are best to be explained.

It deals a lot with evidence from the bible. Please remember that the bible is a historical book as well as a book of religious guidelines. Ludermann studies it in his field along with others. I consider it to not exactly be Gods literal word but his revelation to us. Our way of being familiar with him through reading about what has happened, what will happen and how to live right.