Crucifixion Burials - St. Paul

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:03:41 +0000 (00918655421, 19990210080341.EKIS28455@LOCALNAME) 

Hello again, Jason!

At 01:00 AM 2/10/99 -0600, Jason Filley wrote:

--snip--


>> AJSON

>> >And this truly is a confusing point:  Why would the author of Acts

>> >(presumably the author of the Gospel of Luke) say that the same people

>> >who crucified Jesus were the ones to take him down from the cross and

>> >bury him?  Especially considering that he wrote in his Gospel that:

><snip>

>> >Did Joseph of Arimathaea desire that Jesus should be slain?  Did Joseph

>> >of Arimathaea put Jesus in a sepulchre?

>

>> CREA

>>     Maybe -- just maybe -- "Luke" is honestly reporting what he had heard

>> concerning this speech by Paul, in which case it looks like Paul's sources

>> of information concerning the crucifixion were sadly misinformed (or

>> possibly the oral traditions which crystallized into the gospels'

>> crucifixion accouts were not yet available).  But then again, that's just

>> not possible with a "verbally inspired" text like the bible is supposed

to be.

>

>JASON

>Frankly, why even bother with what Luke said Paul said, when we can read

>what Paul himself wrote?  As another thread turns, Paul's idea of Jesus'

>resurrection was strictly spiritual, and Paul would have been offended

>by someone's insistence that Jesus physically rose from the dead.  So

>the impetus for my original question is this:  we know that crucifixion

>victims were sometimes buried by being tossed into shallow pits.  Does

>Paul ever state that Jesus was buried in a tomb?  Considering the ease

>with which this was related by the later gospelers, isn't it incredibly

>strange that Paul never once mentioned Jesus' being buried in a tomb?

>


CREA
    As far as I can tell (using Strong's Concordance), there are no literal
references to either "tombs" or "sepulchres" anywhere in the NT other than
in the Gospels and Acts.  However, ask again on Saturday or later, and I
should be able to use that to break in the set of the __Analytical
Concordance of the Greek New Testament__ which is currently on order and
should be arriving around then.  Take care of yourself and be good to yourself.


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>