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Apr 19, 2017 · (John 19:38 ESV) The pastor stated Pilate's actions were unusual since Roman practice was a dead body would be given only to a family member. (This was not the case with John the Baptist's body.) Under Roman law (or tradition) what was the status of the body of a person who was executed?
- Summary of Pilate's involvement with Jesus (Matthew's account): The circumstances surrounding Pilate's part in Jesus' crucifixion are surely extrao...
- The sole purpose of crucifixion was to humiliate, torture, and kill criminals in clear view of the public. The Romans left criminals on the cross t...
- Generally, Pilate didn't care what happened to the body of Jesus once it had been determined that He was dead. Pilate's concern was only that the s...
- Ancient Religions and The Afterlife
- Greco-Roman Views of The Afterlife
- Conclusion: Death as A One-Way Trip
To begin with, beliefs about death and what lies beyond come in all shapes and sorts and sizes. Even a quick glance at the classic views of the major religious traditions gives the lie to the old idea that all religions are basically the same. There is a world of difference between the Muslim who believes that a Palestinian boy killed by Israeli so...
In this section we shall describe the range of options for belief about the dead that were available in the greco-roman world of late antiquity—roughly two or three hundred years either side of the time of Jesus. This explains graphically why the news of Jesus’ resurrection appeared sheer foolishness, even though some found that it stirred a strang...
Clearly there was a diversity of greco-roman perspectives about the afterlife. The dead might have some kind of shadowy existence in Hades. They might experience a positive form of disembodied existence, putting off the prison of the body and living as immortal and disembodied souls. They might even aspire, in some cases, to divinization (though wh...
6 days ago · Embalming, the treatment of a dead body so as to sterilize it or to protect it from decay. For practical as well as theological reasons a well-preserved body has long been a chief mortuary concern. The beginnings of the art and techniques of embalming are associated principally with ancient Egypt.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 2, 2012 · There was a Roman system of punishment whereby the authorities chained the body of the murdered person to the murderer. The murdered body stayed chained to the murderer as long as he lived. This corpse constantly interferes with our highest desire to please God. The sin capacity is a deadly weight.
Jun 7, 2021 · Seventeen decapitated skeletons dating back about 1,700 years have been discovered in three Roman cemeteries at Knobb's Farm in Cambridgeshire, in the U.K. Archaeologists who excavated the site...
At a funeral, a spouse, child, or relative of the deceased tells stories and discusses the accolades of the dead. Another similarity is when “the relatives place the image of the departed in the most conspicuous position in the house, enclosed in a shrine.”. This ritual is similar to the modern “wake”.
May 31, 2021 · Dave Webb/Cambridge Archaeological Unit. CNN — Archaeologists have discovered 17 decapitated bodies at three Roman cemeteries in Cambridgeshire, eastern England – an “exceptionally high’ number...
