medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Re: [M-R] Resurrection Bodies?
Um ... I thought it was 33 because that was Christ's age at his resurrection ... or have I missed the point?
 
Maddy
 
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

This does bring up an interesting question. Elderly or not, I at some point also learned the number
33 - but  it now occurs to me that this might have been only for males, and that females
might be considered to have reached perfection a bit younger.
Meg

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---- Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In any case, I presume even our medieval people didn't think dead children would be resurrected at age 33! ... (though nothing would suprise me...)
>
> This is EXACTLY the point made in "Pearl"!  The Father encounters in a dream /vision his daughter who died as a child but the woman in his vision is an adult. He comments on this and the woman tells him, yes, it is so; she is his daughter.
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> Still looking for the text!

Presumably a young adult, rather than age 33 (which was quite elderly in those days!)

The text is maddenly elliptical - he says 'more closely related to me than aunt or niece'. To me that suggests "sister" rather than "daughter".

John Briggs

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