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After the crucifixion, the body of Jesus was placed in a temporary tomb, but then he somehow rose from the dead, and spoke to Mary Magdalene in the garden. Was it Jesus' soul or Jesus' body that rose from the dead? It was reported that Mary Magdalene thought he was the gardener. Could the Spirit of Jesus speak to Mary Magdalene from the mouth of a gardener?
Further east in the Ghenghis Khan culture, when a person died you did not use the word 'die'. You phrased it as "the person rose up to heaven." Could the earlier Palestinian culture have had the same hang-up?