The NT is about Jesus - he did not give up his Jewish traditions ... even today Jews are buried in shrouds within 24 hours of death ...
And the Bible indicates he was buried in a shroud of linen strips.
I also found this as far as Jewish customs of the day:
“Merrill Tenney (professor of theological studies and dean of the Graduate school of Theology at Wheaton College and author of several books including “The Zondervan Bible Dictionary”) describes the Jewish custom as follows: In preparing a body for burial according to Jewish custom, it was usually washed and straightened, and then bandaged tightly from the armpits to the ankles in strips of linen about a foot wide. Aromatic spices, often of a gummy consistency, were placed between the wrappings or folds. They served partially as a preservative and partially as a cement to glue the cloth wrappings into a solid covering. (from: The Reality of the Resurrection).”
What am I missing? The Bible indicates Jesus was wrapped with linen strips and the Jewish custom of the day was to wrap the body with linen strips.
According to Jewish law, burial of the deceased had to occur within 24 hours of the individual’s death (Deuteronomy 21:23), because of climate factors, in order to maintain ritual purity. Soon after death, family members of the deceased would mourn and prepare the body for burial. The deceased’s body was washed and anointed with various oils and spices. The body was then wrapped in unique linen clothing that contained spices and placed on a stone shelf that was carved into the bedrock wall of a the tomb.
It does not say strips of linen ... even today we Jews use a shroud as large as a sheet ....
Not one Jewish burial has every been found done in such a manner. None. There is a large extant body of written history and documents in the Jewish traditions from the period that describe the proper techniques... and what you describe is NOT in them. What is being described is a confabulation of Egyptian burial practices that were being discovered and were written about in the popular press and it was assumed that every middle eastern burial was similar. Modern archaeology and Jewish scholarship have shown the truth to be far different than what you describe above. Preservation of the body was not a goal in Jewish burials. The bodies were intended to be reduced to bones which were then collected and then joined with the bones of their family ancestors in a central ossuary pit in the center of the tomb after a year or so of separate decomposition. Wrapping and preservatives would have been counter productive to this purpose. Consider Lazarus who was able to leave his tomb under his own power... he was could not have been wrapped in such a manner and been able to move.