Zombies of the Bible

[Martin Kaminer]

Looks like the Hebrew came out as Mandarin Chinese!  Ha!  Very fitting somehow.

Actual Hebrew is here if anyone is truly interested.
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Prayers/Daily_Prayers/Shemoneh_Esrei/Gevurot/gevurot.html

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Martin Kaminer
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> Every Friday Morning (including this one) I go to a prayer service at
> my daughter's school to which parents are invited.  It includes the
> Amidah prayer (said thrice daily), the second section of which
> contains the lines:
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> בָּרוּך אַתָּה יְיָ, מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים
> "Blessed Are You God (Who) Reanimates The Dead"
>
> As with anything else religious there is considerable
> dispute/discussion about this but the Biblical source most often cited
> is Isaiah 26:19 "Thy dead men shall live; together with my dead body
> shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew
> is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."
>
> As I've told my son, I've found that silently imagining a Biblical
> Zombie Apocalypse can be a refreshing way to liven up a lengthy
> religious service.
>
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 10/25/2013 03:33 AM, W Brewer wrote:
>>>Story of Lazarus sure freaked me out as a kid. "Lazarus! Git yo' ass on out
>>>cheer!" as a fellow acolyte paraphrased it.
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>> I had not thought of Lazarus; that story is not in my Bible.  But I
>> concede he is a possibility for the Bible of Old South of Boston.
>>
>> Is being raised from the dead sufficient, or must we find additional
>> confirming -- or refuting -- evidence from Lazarus's afterlife?
>>
>> Wikipedia tells me "The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic
>> traditions offer varying accounts of the later events of his
>> life."  But all I find there is "The Gospel of John mentions Lazarus
>> again in chapter 12. Six days before the Passover on which Jesus is
>> crucified, Jesus returns to Bethany and Lazarus attends a supper that
>> Martha, his sister, serves."  We don't know what Lazarus ate.
>>
>> Joel
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