(September 18, 2011 at 9:56 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Prior to Christianity the Hebrew Pharisees believed in a physical resurrection of the body. Orthodox Jews still believe that the dead will be resurrected. It is one of their thirteen main principles of the Jewish faith.
Quote:"I believe with complete (perfect) faith, that there will be techiat hameitim - revival of the dead, whenever it will be God's, blessed be He, will (desire) to arise and do so. May (God's) Name be blessed, and may His remembrance arise, forever and ever."
Chances are the Pharisees got the idea from Zoroastrianism.
That would explain the burial practices of the Zoroastrians. The bural practices involved dead bodies being put on top of a tower to have their flesh picked clean and then those bones were deposited in a pit at the bottom of that tower.
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