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Life Beyond Death in Matthew's Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality?

Life Beyond Death in Matthew's Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality?

Van De Sandt, H.
Weren, W.
Verheyden, J.

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 9042925183
ISBN13: 9789042925182
Publisher: Peeters
Published: May 16 2011
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
The central question of this book is whether Jesus'
resurrection is a religious metaphor or a bodily reality. What does Matthew
focus on when telling the story of Jesus' death, the empty tomb, and the
appearance to the disciples? A great variety of questions comes up for review:
How does Matthew interpret the concept of resurrection and how does his picture
of Jesus' resurrection chime in with other concerns in his gospel? How does
the story of God raising Jesus from the dead fit in with (other) historical
facts? Does Matthew perceive Jesus' resurrection as an event in which the
body is also involved? Is resurrection more than a continuation of our temporal
existence more than a coming back to a life identical to our present
life?

These and other questions are dealt with in twelve
papers written by distinguished scholars from across the globe. The volume is
divided into two major sections. The first section deals with the variety and
development of ideas and beliefs about the afterlife. It studies the
relationship between Matthew's understanding of a post-mortem existence and
interpretations of that phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint,
Greco-Roman writings, early Jewish and early Christian literature. The second
section moves from the broad topics to specific textual units in Matthew about
resurrection, immortality, afterlife and eternal life. Various relevant texts
are singled out for particular study.

This volume is
dedicated to Professor Wim Weren on the occasion of his retirement from the
Tilburg chair of New Testament Exegesis in the School of Humanities.

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