Paradoxically, the Gospels’ resurrection account of the stone rolled away from Jesus’s tomb itself argues against the resurrection because Jesus’s resurrection body was above all said to be able to ignore the normal laws of matter – for instance, to rise to heaven on a cloud, to appear and reappear at will, and to pass through solid barriers. The tomb’s stone was a solid barrier, and so Jesus ought to have been able to pass through it. That the stone was found to have been rolled away indicates an all-too-human need on the part of Jesus: he couldn’t pass through the stone barrier and so didn’t have a resurrection body after all; or, perhaps, secret disciples unknown to the women and the disciples moved the stone and removed Jesus in order to revive him (the core thesis of the “Passover Plot”). All factors that contra-indicate the notion of Jesus’s resurrection body.
to “the Apostles” through visions, dreams, and a particular exegesis of Jewish scripture. Mark, the author of the earliest Gospel, was the first to euhemerize the heavenly spiritual Son, and to write a narrative about what his life on our geophysical earth might have looked like, had he actually incarnated as a man on the earthly plane.
In so doing, Mark constructed for Jesus a mission, a temptation, a calling of disciples, as well as healings and exorcisms, parables, teachings on the Law, the Prophets, the Temple, and other biographical details, most of which function as a kind of midrash on the Hebrew Bible.
What Is Midrash?
Mark gave Jesus a physical, earthly death, just as he had given him a physical, earthly life. After his account of Jesus’s death, Mark then introduced a semi-physical resurrection from a material tomb in order to make his “biography” of an earthly Jesus complete.
Mark then brings on the sorrowing women, whom he says were terrified and said nothing to anyone about the empty tomb and the angelic presence therein. Mark probably did that to encourage his readers to be bold in proclaiming the risen Jesus, and _not_ follow the example of his timid women who fled the tomb in fear and confusion.
Jesus’s original death and resurrection were conceived to have occurred in the lower heavens, where he was tormented and killed by the dark “Powers” after he had been “handed over” (by God or Satan), and where God raised him back up to his original, native state as the Son in heaven. The original death and resurrection were seen as real, but “extraterrestrial”, events enacted for humankind’s benefit. It was only with Mark’s Gospel that they became euhemerized and literalized into the life of the Galilean carpenter-sage with whom our culture is so familiar.
Euhemerization Means Doing What Euhemerus Did
Brief Note on Euhemerization
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