Originally posted by RhinestoneCowboy
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Anyway, Casey is pointing out (I think correctly) that families were occasionally unable to obtain corpses of the crucified. That being said, the fact that there is a tractate about it seems to suggest that it was fairly common for people to ask for the corpses of the crucified. I don't see people continually asking for the corpses of the crucified unless they fairly regularly received them!
Also, about Mark and John, I don't subscribe to John's dependence on Mark, and it's a decidedly minority position these days. Kingsley Barrett was an amazing scholar who got a lot of things right, but I think his view was strongly refuted by both C.H. Dodd and D. Moody Smith.
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