20 APRIL 1996, Page 27

Sir: Apropos of E.P. Sanders's commend- ably honest appraisal of

the real evidence for the Resurrection, I was forcibly remind- ed of the conclusion reached by the great German theologian, David Friedrich Strauss, who wrote of the Resurrection in one of his books on Christian origins: `Rarely has an incredible fact been worse attested, and never has a badly attested one been intrinsically less credible.'

Dare I suggest that another word on the subject would be totally superfluous?

Martin O'Brien 9 Mulberry Drive,

Fruitlands, Worcestershire