Look it up. I told you I wrote a PHD dissertation on the subject at the Catholic University of America. Maybe you just don't know what you are talking about.
The classic DU response: "I don't have any sources I can cite, so you go ahead and check Google. It's not my responsibility to back up my outrageous assertions with fact. You have to do my homework for me."
Maybe you just don't know what you are talking about.
LOL! I know precisely what I'm talking about. I'm not the one making stuff up and then failing to cite sources.
I'll cite mine: Acts describes how Paul was the source of relics while still living and the intertestamental literature and Josephus testify that the Sadducees as well as Pharisees visited and prayed at the tombs of righteous men like Abraham and Joseph without believing that their spirits "hovered" over the sites - it's well-known that Saduccees didn't believe that the soul survived the flesh.
You call yourself a scholar and you can't cite a single source? Did your "dissertation" include no notes or sourcing of any kind?