Jewish Burial at the Time of Jesus

The Ancients

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🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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According to the Gospels, Jesus died and was removed from the cross on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath (Friday afternoon), before his body was placed in the family tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. For 'three days and three nights', Jesus’s body was entombed. But do the accounts of his burial correlate with the archaeology? Do they accurately reflect the manner in which the Jews of ancient Jerusalem buried their dead?

To talk through this extraordinary topic, from what we know about ancient Jewish burial customs to the Talpiot Tomb controversy, I was delighted to be re-joined by Professor Jodi Magness. Jodi has appeared on the Ancients once before, the star of our highly-popular two part podcast on Masada.

You can view Jodi's library of books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Jodi-Magness/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AJodi+Magness

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0:00.0	It's the Ancient's on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's
0:07.8	podcast I've got another real treat for you because I am rejoined by Professor
0:13.3	Jodie Magnus. Jodie has been on the Ancient's podcast once before to talk about
0:18.7	Masada, the Roman siege of Masada and the many myths that still survive to
0:24.4	this day. Now Jodie is back this time to talk about something pretty different
0:29.4	because we're looking at Jewish tombs and Jewish burial in the first century
0:35.5	AD and the first century BC. What's the archaeology is telling us. Now you
0:42.3	might be able to guess where we're going to be going with this because we're
0:45.3	going to be looking at the archaeology that survives and seeing whether it
0:51.1	correlates with the gospel accounts for Jesus' burial following his crucifixion.
0:57.2	This was an incredible chat a really really interesting chat. Jodie is an
1:02.4	enthralling speaker as I'm sure many of you already know so without further a
1:07.2	do. Here's Jodie.
1:17.1	Jodie it is wonderful to have you back on the podcast. Well thank you I'm so
1:22.7	happy to be back. Well we had to get you back after the success of your
1:26.1	Masada two parts that was absolutely brilliant but we're talking about something
1:29.4	a little different today. We're looking at the burial of Jesus in light of
1:33.5	archaeology and the gospel accounts because we have a lot of extraordinary
1:37.9	archaeology that survives that can tell us more about ancient Jewish tombs and
1:42.6	burial customs at the time of Jesus. Right so yes we do have a lot of archaeological
1:48.1	evidence although before I start let me categorize and say that the evidence
1:52.4	that we have even though there's a lot of it is a small fraction of what
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