Following him in, they found that the house was a hollow square, enclosing a courtyard with a bath sunk in the middle, and a fountain in the centre of the bath.
It is the aim of this article to offer a sort of synthesis of some of their key points and show the strength of the historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ. A method commonly used today to determine the historicity of an event is inference to the best explanation..
Circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of factâlike a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directlyâi.e., without need for any additional evidence or inference. On its own, circumstantial evidence allows for more than one explanation. Different pieces of circumstantial evidence may be required, so that each corroborates the conclusions drawn from the others. Together ...