Ahhhhh--I am not convinced.

Seems that even Peter was bamboozeled.

If Paul says he was taught for several years in Arabia by Jesus--then this lead me to believe that the "ascension" tale was also made up by Yeshusa's diciples to take the heat off of him after he arose... so he could make it out of town without the Romans getting wise.

There is a great deal of oral history in the Buddist lit that tells of Yeshusa teaching in the Indus valley some 2000 years ago. This would also lend itself to what Paul said about Arabia... it also connects tightly to the grave site in Northern Pakistan that is said to be of Yeshua (currently heavily guarded by Muslims BTW).