Textual Discrepancies & How They Could Impact Christianity

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In what follows, I provide one example of how the cognitive scienceof religion can be probably applied in the study of early Christianity(see also Martin 2004, 2005, this volume). I focus on the question of what the disciples believed to have happened to Jesus after his deathand how their reections on this affected the early spread of what latercame to be known as Christianity.

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The earliest Christian community in Jerusalem seems not to have known the location of the tomb of Jesus; the place that is presently known as such was first identifed by Constantine’s mother Helena in 325 (see Myllykoski 2002: 47; cf. Walker 1990: 235—81). There is no evidence of the grave having been venerated as a holy place by the disciples; this lack of a cult of veneration cannot be explained by the supposed fact that the tomb was empty. It is precisely this emptiness that would have made it worthy of veneration, if only the location of the tomb had been known (see also Kirby 2005; Parsons 2005).

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Were there such discrepancies in the texts concerning the tomb?

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IMO, this discrepancy doesn't really impact the basic tenets of Christianity.

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