Ritual of spicing the buried body?
August 2, 2023 at 6:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2023 at 6:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
So in Luke 23:56 & 24, we read that women "went home and prepared spices and perfumes. On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb."
But what kind of a ritual are they talking about? Why would someone dig out a dead body from a grave (or a tomb) to spread spices and perfumes on it? I guess this was done before the funeral so that the body does not stink during the funeral, but what would be the point of doing it days after the burial? And also, I gather that Jewish women would not be permitted to touch and anoint dead male bodies.
Was all this perfuming a buried corpse just a plot device so that women have some reason to go to Jesus's tomb?
But what kind of a ritual are they talking about? Why would someone dig out a dead body from a grave (or a tomb) to spread spices and perfumes on it? I guess this was done before the funeral so that the body does not stink during the funeral, but what would be the point of doing it days after the burial? And also, I gather that Jewish women would not be permitted to touch and anoint dead male bodies.
Was all this perfuming a buried corpse just a plot device so that women have some reason to go to Jesus's tomb?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
