'Proposing that Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead was just as controversial nineteen hundred years ago as it is today. The discovery that dead people stayed dead was not first made by the philosophers of the Enlightenment. The historian who wishes to make such a proposal is therefore compelled to challenge a basic and fundamental assumption - not only, as it is sometimes suggested, the position of eighteenth-century scepticism, or the "scientific" worldview" as opposed to a "pre-scientific worldview", but also of almost all ancient and modern peoples outside the Jewish and Christian traditions.'
Tom Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God, p.10.
