Were Jesus and John the Baptist like children who played a dance and a dirge? Or was Jesus’ generation one that complained like whining children about the prophets who came to warn it?
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Widow’s Son in Nain
In Widow’s Son in Nain, David Bivin and Joshua N. Tilton ask “Which Nain was the town where Jesus raised the widow’s son?” and “What is the meaning of the people’s exclamation that a prophet had arisen among them?” The possibility of a Judean ministry early in Jesus’ career and of the messianic connotations of the Widow’s Son in Nain story are discussed in detail in this segment of the Life of Yeshua commentary.
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Jewish Burial Customs in the First Century
How to cite this article: Ronny Reich, “Jewish Burial Customs in the First Century,” Jerusalem Perspective 33/34 (1991): 22 [https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/19631/]. The process of Jewish burial in the Second Temple period took place in two stages. First, the dead person was buried on a ledge or in a loculus of a rock-hewn tomb. Then after about …
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Sidebar: A Sadducee Who Believed in an Afterlife?
This article originally appeared in the JP magazine as a sidebar attached to “Discovery of the Caiaphas Family Tomb” by Zvi Greenhut. It is rather surprising that we find in a Sadducean tomb evidence of the pagan custom of supplying the dead with payment for entrance into the Underworld. The Sadducees strongly opposed the idea …
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