Quote from The Last Week

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem 

by Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan 

Harper One, New York, New York, 2006        238 pages

It is standard in the iconography of Greek Orthodox Christianity to depict the resurrection of Jesus not as that of an isolated individual but as that of a group in which Jesus is the liberator and leader of the holy ones who slept in Hades awaiting his advent. (p. 180)



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