Endnote 6 – What Did Jesus’ Tomb Look Like?

Martin Hengel, Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977), pp. 19, 83, 90. See for example Craig A. Evans, Jesus and the Ossuaries, What Jewish Burial Practices Reveal about the Beginning of Christianity (Waco: Baylor University, 2003), p. 101; McCane, Roll Back the Stone, p. 89; John Dominic Crossan, Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), pp. 160-163; Raymond E. Brown, The Death of the Messiah from Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels, volume two (New York: Doubleday, 1994), p. 947.