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If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 289 of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world where we look

at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode we're talking about

where the tomb of Christ is located. I'm Dom Betinelli and joining me today is

Jimmy Aiken. Hey Jimmy, how did it am?

Jesus of Nazareth, regarded by Christians as God's Messiah or Christ, is the most pivotal figure in world history.

The New Testament records that he was crucified, died, and was buried before rising from death three days later.

If this is true, he must have been buried in a particular location, but where is it? There have been

various claims there are different sites honored by Christians and members of

other groups and some skeptical scholars doubt that Jesus was buried in a tomb at all. So what does the historical

evidence say? Which possibilities are good candidates and which are bad ones?

And can we identify the most likely place that Jesus was buried?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world.

Jimmy, how do you want to start today's mystery?

By taking a look at what the four canonical Gospels have to say about where the tomb of Christ was located,

the four Gospels are our earliest sources on the subject, so we need to take a look at them first.

Scholars differ on when the four Gospels were written.

A common view is that they were written between AD 70 and AD 90 or 100. So beginning about 40 years after the crucifixion and

spanning a 20 to 30 year period. However, as we discussed in episode 140 on

when the Gospels were written, I believe that a careful and

unbiased look at the evidence reveals that they were written somewhat earlier than that.

I date the earliest Gospel, Mark, to about AD 55, and the last gospel,

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