Arimathea = “cemetery”
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 12:37 am
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu
(Samuel 1:1)
Arech mothim = “place of the dead people”.
Not coincidentially, GPeter talks about a "Garden of Joseph", the place of burial:
And having taken the Lord, he washed and tied him with a linen cloth and brought him into his own sepulcher, called the Garden of Joseph.
Hence the (excessive and treacherous) emphasis is, as 100% expected, on the reality of the death of Jesus, against the claims, in Cdn, of the his sudden disappearance from the cross.