Women as the First Witnesses
If you were faking the resurrection in the first century, you'd never pick women to find the tomb.
Grounded in the research on N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God
Start with the claim
All four Gospels say the same thing: the first people to find Jesus' tomb empty were women, with Mary Magdalene leading every list. The male disciples were off hiding. This tiny detail is the spine of a serious apologetics argument that runs on a historical tool called the criterion of embarrassment: details a movement would never invent against itself are more likely to be real.
Know the culture
First-century Judea did not treat women as credible witnesses. Josephus flatly says their testimony shouldn't be admitted 'because of the levity and boldness of their sex.' The Talmud preserves Rabbi Eliezer's line that you'd sooner burn the Torah than teach it to a woman (Sotah 19a). Different context, same low ceiling: a woman's word carried structurally less weight. Hold that, because the whole case turns on it.