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{en} George W.E. Nickelsburg, Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

Abstract

"In this groundbreaking publication, originally published in 1972, George Nickelsburg places ideas in their historical circumstances as he probes biblical and postbiblical texts and challenges widely accepted scholarship. The continuities in literary forms demonstrate that divine justice was the central issue, but that people differed as to whether that justice was enacted in this life, in the assumption to heaven, in a resurrection, or in the ongoing life as an immortal soul. The expanded edition includes subsequent studies on the resurrection accounts and theologies of the New Testament, the New Testament passion narratives, and Jewish and Christian theologies about the Son of Man. This book provides a window into aspects of the ancient apocalyptic worldview whose dynamics and functions are often misunderstood."--Publisher description.

Other Editions

• Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism (1972 Nickelsburg), book

Contents

Religious persecution : apocalyptic texts --; Religious persecution : the story of the persecution and exaltation of the righteous man --; Religious persecution : the story of the persecution and vindication of the righteous --; The oppression of the righteous poor : I Enoch 94-104 --; Resurrection : unrelated to persecution, oppression, and injustice --; The Qumran scrolls and two-ways theology --; Some presuppositions of Cullmann's essay on Immortality of the soul or resurrection of the dead --; Resurrection in early Christianity --; The genre and function of the Markan passion narrative --; The Son of Man in Judaism and early Christianity.

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