RS235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Josephus, Death, Fish Meal
17 Mar 2015
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The living jesus what happened after the death and burial of jesus is told in the last chapters of the four new testament gospels. On easter sunday morning his tomb was found empty, and by easter sunday evening jesus himself had appeared to his closest followers and all was well once again. Friday was hard, saturday was long, but by. I have already argued, for instance, that jesus" burial by his friends was totally fictional and unhistorical. Jesus was buried, if buried at all, by his enemies, and the necessarily shallow grave would have been easy prey for scavenging animals. Christian faith experiences the continuation of divine empowerment through jesus, but that continuation began only after his death and burial. Jesus" death was not always important, and neither was the easter story, but it was passed down and made important over time.
