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Authors: Richard N. Longenecker
ISBN-13: 9780802844743, ISBN-10: 080284474X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Richard N. Longenecker

Book Synopsis

This book brings into focus the resurrection message of the New Testament. The chapters demonstrate how the resurrection both provides the basis for joyful living now despite the shadow of death and undergirds the Christian belief in a future after death.

Ethics & Medicine

For the Christian healthcare worker, this book is foundational in providing an extensive scriptural study of the resurrection. No theology of medicine can begin anywhere else.... Truly informed medical practice requires a scriptural understanding of the resurrection. The book provides this understanding, even for those without extensive training in theology.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
1Introduction1
IBackground Perspectives
2Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East21
3Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Greco-Roman World51
4Life, Death, and the Afterlife in Second Temple Judaism80
IIPortrayals of Jesus and his Teaching
5Gospel, Kingdom, and Resurrection in the Synoptic Gospels99
6"I Am the Resurrection and the Life": The Resurrection Message of the Fourth Gospel122
IIIThe Message of Paul
7Resurrection and Immortality in the Pauline Corpus147
8Is There Development in Paul's Resurrection Thought?171
9Resurrection and the Christian Life in Paul's Letters203
IVExperiences of the Early Church
10"Witnesses of His Resurrection": Resurrection, Salvation, Discipleship, and Mission in the Acts of the Apostles227
11Living a Life of Faith in the Face of Death: The Witness of Hebrews247
12Witness and the Resurrection in the Apocalypse of John270
Index of Subjects289
Index of Modern Authors293
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature298

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