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Resurrection Logic: How Jesus' First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead

Resurrection Logic: How Jesus' First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead

Chilton, Bruce D.

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1481310631
ISBN13: 9781481310635
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Aug 15 2019
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.49 Depth: 9.29
Language: English

Death does not speak the final word. Resurrection does. Christianity stands or falls with this central confession: God raised Jesus from the dead.

Bruce Chilton investigates the Easter event of Jesus in Resurrection Logic. He undertakes his close reading of the New Testament texts without privileging the exact nature of the resurrection, but rather begins by situating his study of the resurrection in the context of Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, and Syrian conceptions of the afterlife. He then identifies Jewish monotheistic affirmations of bodily resurrection in the Second Temple period as the most immediate context for early Christian claims. Chilton surveys first-generation accounts of Jesus' resurrection and finds a pluriform--and even at times seemingly contradictory--range of testimony from Jesus' first followers. This diversity, as Chilton demonstrates, prompted early Christianity to interpret the resurrection traditions by means of prophecy and coordinated narrative.

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