12 Unbelievably Bad Marketers in Jerusalem

[Pat Mustard]

and Mark spends the least of any, where if we look at the original shorter ending to Mark the resurrection and its aftermath occupy a few lines of text.

Actually there's no resurrection at all in Mark, until the late addition to bring it into line with John. It ends with the empty tomb, no announcements, no angels, not even a single word about Yeshua coming again. And we can be pretty certain this addition was post-Nicene, because neither Vaticanus nor Sinaiticus go past Mark 16:8, and they are both bibles written under the rules implemented after the council of Nicaea.

So we've got the the oldest (and most likely to contain any accuracies) version of the bible not having a resurrection until 4th century CE. That actually lends support to the whole Yeshua being yhwh angle being a later invention by the likes of Saul of Tarsus who looked at a failed ultra-orthodox jewish cult and saw in it the germs of an opportunity to scam people, by melding the original cultic and anti-Roman leader with a version of the mystery religions that were becoming increasingly popular in the Roman world in the early Principate. That is the most reasonable theory as to why you've got a whole lot of Hellenistic mythology, symbolism, god becoming man and resurrection ideas melded onto a story of a man who was telling all and sundry that they must be more jewish, cleave more closely to the sanhedric and toranic laws and become even more fundamentalist (think the equivalent of the settler communities today stealing land from the Palestinians).