Quote:A guy by the name of Joseph of Arimathea
Moreover, there does not seem to be an "Arimathea" for him to be from.
Luke calls it a city but no one seems to know anything about it but lukey also pulls the same shit routine with "nazareth" which sure as hell was not a "city" either.
The second point is that Joseph of Arimathea would not have been a proper usage for a Jewish noble in first century Judaea. Joseph son of "xxx" (whoever) would have been correct. The X of Y formula was Greco-Roman which seems to indicate that this whole sorry story was just a stage direction to get the body off the cross and offstage for the next act.
Even in Shakespeare's time theaters did not have curtains. Dead bodies had to be carried off stage by groups of soldiers, relatives, retainers, etc.
Just a plot device by whoever wrote this silly story in the first place.
