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  2. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    The absolution of the dead is a series of prayers for pardon that are said over the body of a deceased Catholic following a Requiem Mass and before burial. The absolution of the dead does not forgive sins or confer the sacramental absolution of the Sacrament of Penance .

  3. Cremation in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christians also used burial as a mark of difference from the Iron Age European pre-Christian Pagan religions, which usually cremated their dead. Cremation was even outlawed and punishable with death by Charlemagne in AD 789 for this reason. [1] Beginning in the Middle Ages, rationalists and classicists began to advocate for cremation.

  4. Stolen body hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    According to this version of the stolen body hypothesis, some of the disciples stole away Jesus's body. Potential reasons include wishing to bury Jesus themselves; believing that Jesus would soon return and wanting his body in their possession; a "pious deceit" to restore Jesus's good name after being crucified as a criminal; or an outright plot to fake a resurrection. [3]

  5. Burial of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The burial of Jesus refers to the entombment of the body of Jesus after his crucifixion before the eve of the sabbath.This event is described in the New Testament.According to the canonical gospel narratives, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the Sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea; [2] according to Acts 13:28–29, he was laid in a tomb by "the council as a whole". [3]

  6. Universal resurrection - Wikipedia

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    General resurrection or universal resurrection is the belief in a resurrection of the dead, or resurrection from the dead (Koine: ἀνάστασις [τῶν] νεκρῶν, anastasis [ton] nekron; literally: "standing up again of the dead" [1]) by which most or all people who have died would be resurrected (brought back to life).

  7. Swoon hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The transfer of Jesus' body by the local authorities into the hands of a rich influential follower and execution of a quick burial lend support to the swoon hypothesis, allowing a swooned Jesus to be removed from the cross, quickly hidden away from public scrutiny with room to recover from his ordeal in an above ground burial chamber on private ...

  8. Mortuary archaeology - Wikipedia

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    A cremation burial involves the process of burning a corpse on a pyre and is another common form of burial. However, this process is unique because typically, no archaeological evidence can be gathered from the actual skeletal remains unless there are fragments of bone left behind and buried after the body is burned. [ 5 ]

  9. John 20:7 - Wikipedia

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    The two different readings imply two visions of the resurrection, an event which is never directly described in the Bible. (Though it is described in the Gospel of Peter ) [ 2 ] If the head cloth remained in the same location where Jesus' head had lain, it suggests that the resurrection process saw Jesus lifted through his clothing or that he ...