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I\u2019m planning on revising my book The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith and releasing the second edition as an ebook. Having spotted a post on IO9 about the claim that there is a tomb of Christ in Japan (a topic that has come to my attention from time to time), I am wondering (1) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39,67],"tags":[1461,1828,5572,5677,12722],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-historical-jesus","category-new-testament-bible","tag-burial","tag-christ","tag-japan","tag-jesus","tag-tomb"],"yoast_head":"\n
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I\u2019m planning on revising my book The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith<\/a> <\/em>and releasing the second edition as an ebook