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And that\u2019s how it all started.<\/p>\n

We took a close look and saw that, on the one hand, the author mentions resurrection a couple of times (mainly referring to the general resurrection). And so the author did not neglect or reject the idea of bodily resurrection, it would seem.<\/p>\n

Yet there is no mention of the resurrection of Jesus until the very end of the work. And so I suggested that this might be because the author\u2019s metaphor of Jesus\u2019 death as sacrifice with Jesus himself as high priest really left no room to incorporate the resurrection. Having the sacrifice return to life before it is presented messes up the analogy. Badly.<\/p>\n

In the process of looking to see what the author says about resurrection, the mention of a \u201cbetter resurrection\u201d in 11:35<\/a> came up \u2013 leading one person who is a fan of the zombie genre to ask what a \u201cworse resurrection\u201d might look like. One possibility (which is what made this post seem appropriate for April 1st) is of course something like this:<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

Hebrews can be Eastery, and it also works on April Fools\u2019 Day too, apparently.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"