{"id":6214,"date":"2014-04-28T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2020-09-01T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T02:16:37","slug":"podcast-38-dr-craig-evans-on-the-burial-and-empty-tomb-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-38-dr-craig-evans-on-the-burial-and-empty-tomb-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 38 &#8211; Dr. Craig Evans on the burial and empty tomb traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8615\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6214-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities038.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities038.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities038.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities038.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=6214-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities038.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities038.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6217\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea.jpg\" alt=\"Arimathea\" width=\"526\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea.jpg 589w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea-420x179.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea-460x196.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arimathea-90x38.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>In&nbsp;<a title=\"How Jesus Became God\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0061778184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>How Jesus Became God<\/em><\/a>, Dr. Bart&nbsp;<strong>Ehrman&nbsp;argues that we should doubt<\/strong> the New Testament reports that Jesus was <strong>buried<\/strong> in a tomb, and that this tomb was <strong>found empty<\/strong> on the third day after Jesus&#8217; crucifixion. (Dr. Ehrman and I discussed this&nbsp;briefly&nbsp;in <a title=\"trinities episode 35\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/6149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode 35<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, I discuss Ehrman&#8217;s arguments on this with <strong>Dr. Craig Evans, who wrote a chapter about these arguments&nbsp;<\/strong>in the response book <a title=\"How God Became Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0310519594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>How God Became Jesus<\/em><\/a>. Dr. Evans brings to bear some fascinating historical and archaeological <strong>evidence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the two, it seems to me that Dr. Evans has the<strong> stronger case<\/strong>. Do you agree? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to <a title=\"episode 38 on youtube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZKvy9e5UMKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this episode on <strong>youtube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some&nbsp;relevant <strong>links<\/strong> for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Craig A. Evans website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craigaevans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. <strong>Craig A. Evans<\/strong>&#8216;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"From Jesus to the Church\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0664239056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>From Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jesus and His World\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0664239323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fabricating Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0830833552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jodi Magness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jodimagness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archaelogist Dr. <strong>Jodi Magness<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Paul&#8217;s possible incorporation of an early creed in <a title=\"1 Corinthians 15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Corinthians+15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 Corinthians 15<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The burial rules in <a title=\"Deuteronomy 21 burial rules\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomy+21%3A22-23&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deuteronomy 21<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <a title=\"Evans vs. Ehrman debate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L7gmgdk9qG8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>2011 debate<\/strong><\/a> between Drs. Evans and Ehrman. And a <a title=\"review of Evans vs. Ehrman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityfoundation.org\/journal.php?id=285#_ftn2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written review<\/a> of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Evans brings to bear some fascinating historical and archaeological evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,16,54,14,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-books","category-debates","category-history","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42742,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/42742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}