Quote:Also, I should also say we don't know anything about Joseph of Arimathea except the one reference to him in the account that labels him as a "secret follower".
Yes, and even worse is that history and archaeology cannot identify any place called "Arimathea." And even worse than that the usage X of Y is not consistent with the Jewish aristocracy which would have been the patronymic X son of Y.
All in all it just looks like they had to invent a character who would get jesus' sorry ass down off the cross.
