Bond, H K 2023, ' ‘Seated at the Right Hand of the Father’ : The meaning of the empty tomb narrative in Mark ', Modern Believing, vol. 64, no. 2 . https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2023.10
The following essay argues that Mark’s empty tomb narrative taps into broader Jewish and Graeco-Roman cultural assumptions in which the disappearance of a body might suggest that the person concerned had been taken up into the realm of the gods. The purpose of Mark 16:1-8, therefore, is not to prove Jesus’ physical, fleshly resurrection, but rather to show that he is now in the heavenly realm, ‘seated at the right hand of the Father’ (14:62).
