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The Resurrection of the Messiah: A Narrative Commentary on the Resurrection Accounts in the Four Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Francis J. Moloney provides a narrative reading of the resurrection stories in Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. His focus is almost entirely upon the text itself. Guided by current scholarship, he uncovers the perennial significance of the four resurrection narratives that are accepted and read as sacred Scripture in the Christian tradition. Without disregarding the historical background that must...

had buried Jesus without the usual washing and anointing of the body in 15:46. A hint of Jesus’ burial without anointing appeared in Jesus’ interpretation of the unknown woman’s gesture in 14:8: “She has anointed my body beforehand for burying.” However, the notion of returning, some thirty-six hours after a death by crucifixion, to anoint a body that has been entombed without embalming has been seized upon by the critics as an indication of the implausibility of the motivation for the women’s visit
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