So the question I asked was whether you could cite to one piece of evidence specific to First Century Palestine indicating that the burial of the body of a crucified criminal would even be unlikely. I take it from your response that the answer is “no.”
I answered you in the only way possible. If you wish you can certainly use the gaps in our knowledge to convince yourself that the events that occurred in Palestine were special in some way that marked it apart from the rest of history.
The NRSV Bible text has Luke 4.16-18 say “He [Jesus] stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:”The Spirit of the Lord ” etc. My question is, was he reading Isaiah in the Hebrew bible or the Septuagint Greek translation, which was (according to most sources) the more commonly read version? Were the synagogues continuing to worship using their Hebrew version?
The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary (2011 revision), under the ‘languages’ entry, says “Christ spoke Aramaic, but undoubtedly understood Greek, and read the scriptures in classical Hebrew.”
So what language was Jesus reading the scrolls in?
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