Sir: The Dean of St Paul's is ingenious in reasoning
that twenty years in AD 60 is equal to twenty minutes in 1974 as communications were so slow. Not all that slow, as fast as any time before the railway. With relays the Imperial post could keep up ten miles an hour so news of the Resurrection would reach Rome from Jerusalem in the time the news of the battle of Trafalgar got to London.
But must we also believe that memories made up in length and accuracy and reliability for the lack of telephones and radio? As far as I remember the Moorgate crash was reported over every channel and in every paper.
But no contemporary reported the Resurrection. Not Josephus, not Tacitus, not Seneca, not Pliny though the two last wrote volumes on the natural phenomena of their time. And the memory of the Evangelists was faulty. For instance they say that it was , customary for a Roman Governor to free a criminal selected by the crowd, at Passover. Well it wasn't.
George Edinger Reform Club, Pall Mall, London SW1
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