Were resurrections common or unheard of among the Jews in the times of Genesis through Malachi?

There were two groups of thought on life after death in the first century Jewish understanding.

The Sadducees held there was no spiritual life and thus no resurrection of any kind after death.

The Pharisees did have an understanding of a spiritual resurrection after death, but even then it was 'en mass' when God was to raise all at once.

The bodily resurrection of an individual was unheard of and quite inconceivable to the Jews. (and it is quite implausible that the disciples of Christ would make this version up, being Jews themselves.)

Some people note that other cultures had resurrection stories. Well, yes - and no.

Horus is said (by some) to illustrate an understanding of resurrection to the Egyptians.

It is said that Horus merged with the sun god Re and is "resurrected" with each new sunrise. Other cultures saw the spring cycle of new life as a type of resurrection.

In none of these understanding is resurrection understood to be a person rising from the grave to life and live among people again.

Calling those understandings as something equivalent to the Christian understanding of Christ's resurrection is, IMO, trying to equate apples and oranges because they are both fruit.

All primitive societies had stories of "The Happy Hunting Ground" or something similar. The Jews got the idea from Egypt, who had a "Valley or Reeds". There was even a judgment of sorts, where the heart was weighed, and the person as well had a chance to explain how they kept out of trouble by denying a list of things that they might have done.... They had to deny that they had ever murdered, or stolen anything, or betrayed anyone...rather like the 10 commandments..... because this is where the 10 commandments came from. Virgin births of gods were common. See what you can find on Google with Ancient Egypt + weighing of the heart.

there was no resurrections, that i know of between Noah and Malachi. however there are stories of men of such faith that they were "translated" from mortal life to a similar eternal life, Noah and Enoch and possibly moses and defnitely Elijah. according to the bible. yes.

according to the pearl of great price, it is said that an entire society had become so righteous, that they were taken with Enoch, but not resurrected. it is said of the mormons that john the revelator and three nephite apostles were also translated and perform missionary work throughout the world. i myself eperienced a visitation of a traveling spirit as he spoke to me that i was going to be (killed) so i took that as a warning to leave Utah when i had actually planned to go to BYU.

the Bible also speaks of Jesus as being the first fruits of the resurrection. i questioned why it is written in plural form, and then it is also written in the book of matthew in ch. 27 vs 52 that there were others that were resurrrected.

52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

but we find in the book of peter, 3:18-20, that the spirits of those that were sometimes disobedient, that they waited in spirit prison for the resurrection of Christ, so, the wicked were not resurrected at all, until christ, but then in another verse it says that King David was not found, meaning even he did not come forth in the first fruits resurrection. and of course it is written that many people today will not come forth in the "first resurrection" at the time of Jesus appearance, because they were caught up and do not repent of their sins. such as masturbation to porn or looking upon women to burn in lust after them. and sins like sorcery and witcchcrafts. see LDS doctrine and covenants Section 63:15-20

Jewish custom or common preparedness was that the body of the Jewish person who had died be watched for three days in case that they would be resurrected. Decomposing would most often set in after three days. After three days, the body would be buried. That waiting three days was common, but is there record of anyone coming back to life during that time?

The resurrection story is common to most North African, Arabian, and Asian cultures of the time!