re what did lazarus smell like in article apr athos rutgers edu rolfe dsuvax dsu edu tim rolfe writes my guess is that the lazarus come out was also for the sake of the crowd i read somewhere i think in morton smith s jesus the magician that old lazarus wasn t dead but going in the tomb was part of an initiation rite for a magi cult of which jesus was also a part it appears that a day stay was normal i wonder i haven t read that book but another one by smith in which similar claims were made about jesus while i m sure smith knows more about early chrisitanity than i do i found his arguments similar to those of books like holy blood holy grail building conjectures on top of other conjectures there was no direct evidence if you d like to summarize the argument for us i d be happy to see it but in doing so i d like you to pay careful attention to the nature of the evidence clh
