Christian tradition depicts Jesus’ tomb as empty and solitary, but archaeology tells a different story. Tombs in Jerusalem were family complexes filled with multiple bodies. Early gospel writers ...

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“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”—John 19:41 As a literary device, this description of the burial place of ...

You may put truth in a grave; it won’t stay there. You may nail the truth to a cross and shut it up in a tomb; the truth will rise — as Jesus Christ rose on Easter morning.” The resurrection of Jesus ...

The death and resurrection of Jesus is the most famous underdog story in history. A low-status artisan from Galilee challenged the authorities of his time and ended up dying a brutal and horrifying ...

Archaeologists and theologians are dismissing a new television documentary that suggests Jesus’s tomb was discovered nearly 30 years ago during an excavation in Jerusalem. Two small limestone boxes ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a violent ...