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1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Christian hope and its Jewish roots -- He is risen! -- Restoring Israel -- Jesus of Nazareth, apocalyptic prophet -- New heaven, new earth, and new temple -- An eschatological sign to the people -- Resurrection life and the body -- The first fruits of those who have died -- Jesus as the first of many -- Imminence -- The church as Israel -- Participation in Christ -- What kind of resurrected body? -- A journey to Sheol (and back) -- Did Jesus and Paul find resurrection in the Bible? -- The land of no return -- Existing without living -- When my life was ebbing away, I called the Lord to mind -- Communicating with the dead -- The passages that aren't there (and what they tell us) -- Returning from the land of no return -- Who goes to Sheol and who does not -- When and why Sheol is mentioned -- Sheol is not hell -- Death defanged -- Heaven on earth -- The temple as the Garden of Eden -- Immortality in the House of the Lord -- Adam foresees the destruction of the temple -- You will receive me with glory -- Confidence in the face of death -- How birth reverses death -- Individual and family in biblical Israel -- The functional equivalent of Resurrection -- The name survives death -- A foretaste of Resurrection -- The death and Resurrection of the Promised Son -- Pick up your son -- Little stories with one big message -- A look ahead -- Revival in two modes -- Zions children return to their mother -- The widow re-wed (and to the same husband) -- Israel's exodus from the grave -- Mortal Israelites and immortal Israel -- I deal death and give life -- Inevitable death and the promise of life -- He shall turn back from his ways and live -- From death to life -- The great awakening -- The reversal -- Why Resurrection, a false answer -- Oh, let your dead revive! -- The deeper roots of Resurrection -- The victory of the divine warrior -- Summary : old and new in Resurrection -- The least known teaching in Judaism -- Powerful to save -- An obligation, not an option -- Doubts and reforms -- What was wrong with the Gnostic Gospel? -- Skeptics and heretics -- Dualism -- Dry bones, restoration, and Resurrection -- Resurrection and the power of God -- The flesh -- Resurrection, truth, and power -- The redeemed life in the here and now -- Christians and Jews -- The new life of the Christian -- The Eucharist -- The Lord's prayer -- Torah and eternal life -- Resurrection at Sinai -- Christians and Jews again. |
| Summary |
This book, written for religious and nonreligious people alike in clear and accessible language, explores a teaching central to both Jewish and Christian traditions: the teaching that at the end of time God will cause the dead to live again. Although this. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Resurrection.
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Resurrection. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Judaism. |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Relations. |
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Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Levenson, Jon Douglas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Madigan, Kevin, 1960- Resurrection. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007040498 |
| ISBN |
9780300145205 (electronic book) |
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0300145209 (electronic book) |
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1282089463 |
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9781282089464 |
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9780300122770 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300122772 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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