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1 | dead bury the dead? | NT general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53068 | ||
Shalom Christian7; This passage really bothered me for a long time until I found the cultural significance of it. We must always remember that they lived in a different time and in a different culture and they knew things that we do not. Traditional burials were different than our own. When someone died, they were taken into the crypt and layed on a shelf. This was the first burial. The second burial is a practice adopted from the pagans. It was believed that the god "Mot" (a Canaanite god, which is a Hebrew and Canaanite word meaning "death") ate the flesh off the body leaving the bones. On the one year aniversary of the death of the deceased, in a type of pagan ceremony, the bones were gathered together and placed in the osturary, this is the second burial. Yeshua (Jesus) is most likely talking about the second burial and saying that it would be better to follow him than to take part in this pagan ceremony. I hope this helps. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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2 | dead bury the dead? | NT general Archive 1 | christian7 | 53072 | ||
Shalom and thank you... she said that it makes more sense now... | ||||||
3 | dead bury the dead? | NT general Archive 1 | Rick_01 | 53139 | ||
But I would like to tell you that even though the explanation seems to be good and attractive, there is nothing in the context that gives us the right to interpret this passage that way. I am a bachelor in theology in all my readings here and there, I have never seen this interpretation by the specialists of the New Testament. I am not saying that the fellow brother is wrong, but it is quite bizarre that he has not referred to the most common answer that explains the text as well, as I did in my commentary. | ||||||
4 | dead bury the dead? | NT general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53158 | ||
Shalom Rick; I have been in personal contact with scholars in Israel who are studying with some of the most scholarly individuals within Christianity and Judaism. They have stated that America seems to remain about 50 years behind the archeological and anthropological discoveries of the land of Israel. My suggestion would be to study some of the new discoveries from these people and organizations that are intimately involved with the study of the Bible in the land of the Bible. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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