From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Martin Edwards wrote:   
      
   > The person thought to be dead who later turns up alive was a common   
   > trope in the secular literature of the period.  It even resurfaces in   
   > Shakespeare in Pericles, Prince of Tyre.   
      
   Supposedly, and religion was never that interesting to me but, supposedly   
   there were numerous prophets running around raising the dead, even in   
   Jewish tradition.   
      
   > On a slightly different note Joseph was a "just" man, ie a strict   
   > observer of the Jewish law, but an angel tells him that Mary's baby was   
   > conceived by the Holy Spirit.  As a Jew he would not have believed in a   
   > Holy Spirit.   
      
   The nutters used to "Argue" that one-man-one-wife was the norm, as   
   portrayed in the bible, while Jewish tradition even hundreds of years   
   after the supposed time of Jesus was that a man could have as many   
   wives as he could afford... as remains the law even if not the social   
   norm in the middle east today... even amongst fundamentalist Jews.   
      
      
      
      
      
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