No scholar claims that anything happened after Jesus’s resurrection. Unless Jesus is the metaphor for celestial objects.

No human being has ever died and rose from the dead. We know from scientific studies that necrosis and lack of oxygen to the brain make this impossible.

It is a fairytale.

Bible studies are the original field studied in Western universities when they were first established – at Bologna and Oxford. They trained primarily religious clerics. What is a religious cleric? In the Western tradition, he is a teacher. A rabbi means teacher. He teaches and helps primitive half-apes through allegories and metaphors to arrive, with hope at a place where all humans will respect and obey the golden rule.

We are not there yet, but we are certainly closer to it. Second discipline taught in the western universities is that of the classical and ancient studies of the ancient worlds of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

It is from them that we rediscover science. Biblical studies then go from being primarily about god and religion, to, in the 20th century using the very sophisticated knowledge we have attained and developed in philology, reasoning, epigraphy, linguistics and other fields, as well as obviously archaeology, to debunk the supernaturality of these books and demonstrate – while improving reasoning and rational nature of man – to recognize that everything about him that is great – and has built the Colossus at Rhodes, the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China – is within him already, and no force of the gods is necessary, nay, it takes away from his agency to be the master of his own fate or help his fellow man.

When biblical scholars make arguments like you’re mentioning, they are not made for other scholars, or to debunk “resurrection.” How do you debunk something that is so obviously false to people who choose to believe something so obviously false? That scholar is using textual criticism to highlight one out of million ridiculous holes in the traditional Christian narrative.

None of these issues are a problem for more liberal Christian churches, who speak of Platonic light, oneness of all, charity and rule of law, and the ritualization in the material as a civilizing elements of the subconscious – groups like Swedenbourgism or even Anglicanism.

The creed theory is almost certainly true. Many of sayings of Yeshua are collections of sayings of various ancient sages from the Platonic, neoplatonic, pythagoran, Euclidian, and Jewish traditions from the likes of Plotinus, Rabbi Hillel and others.

At Nag Hammadi and at other places, we have discovered manuscripts that are basically a point form collection of the sort of mores that are taught in the Gospels and attributed to Jesus.

What you have here is mystics and guys who were Neoplatonists get together with the Jews in the Alexandrian period and syncretize the two traditions.