Steven Carr

Why doesn't Paul mention amazing things like the return of Moses from the dead to the earth to speak to Jesus?

For a first-century Jew, that would be one of the most amazing things that ever happened.

This is , after all, Moses we are talking about.

One common excuse is that early Christians were so familiar with Gospel stories that Paul had no need to rehash old news.

The Bishop of Durham has just emailed me, with the following answer to this question :-

Were these Jesus-worshipping resurrection-scoffers familiar with Old
Testament stories of God breathing life into dead matter to create Adam, or
with stories of Moses returning from the grave to speak to Jesus?

NT Wright: very unlikely.

CARR
So if Paul's readers were very unlikely to have heard stories of Moses speaking to Jesus, what on earth did early Christians talk about?

What sort of oral tradition would make it 'very unlikely' that Christians in Corinth did not know that God had created Adam from dead matter, or that Moses had returned from the grave to speak to Jesus?