Good Luck with that Resurrection, Brother!

About two thousand years ago a Jewish comic used graffiti
in a Jewish catacomb by illustrating, with religious circumspection,
Jewish humor, drily writing for the dry bones this entreaty
in Greek that is still legible: “Good luck to you regarding resurrection!”
Although of resurrection he was probably a whimsical denier,
for me his most amusing mural message is a great mechayeh,
confirming Qumran’s ripped description in the ‘Pseudo-Ezekiel’ fragments
regarding resurrection of the righteous from Death Valley’s bony fragments:
Down with the Sadducean disbelief! reflected in the first Book of the Maccabees,
and Up with it! as in the second version, following the Pharisees.

Inspired by a description of graffiti in Beit Shearim by Karen Brown (Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity) and a discussion of Qumranic Pseudo-Ezekiel Quran fragments by Devorah Dimant in “The Valley of Dry Bones and the Resurrection of the Dead,” thetorah.com:

“Good luck on your resurrection!” So a passerby wrote in the grave complex at Beit Shearim, in fairly messy (although still legible) Greek in the ceiling and entryway wall of catacomb 20 (p. 92). This somewhat cheeky greeting is one among many charming, intimate moments Karen Stern catalogues in her 2018 monograph, Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (Princeton University Press).

Daniel Schwartz in https://www.thetorah.com/article/judea-versus-judaism-between-1-and-2-maccabees writes: “Judea versus Judaism: Between 1 and 2 Maccabees”:

A well-known theological divide between the Pharisees and the Sadducees was the belief in resurrection: the Pharisees believed in it, and the Sadducees did not. This divide is reflected in the two books.

In 2 Maccabees, Judah raises money to bring sacrifices on behalf of dead soldiers to ensure their future resurrection and the author approves quite emphatically.

In contrast, 1 Maccabees makes no reference at all to belief in resurrection.