Arimathea = “cemetery”

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Giuseppe
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Arimathea = “cemetery”

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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.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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