Jesus's burial in a rock-hewn tomb by Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin, is depicted in all four Gospel traditions. A decent number of scholars have questioned the partial or total authenticity of this story, arguing that Jesus may have been dishonorably interred in an earth grave or perhaps not even buried at all [1]. The following will argue against both of these hypotheses and will argue that the lack of proper scriptural allusion makes both of these theories implausible. It ...
