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Life Beyond Death in Matthew's Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality? (Hardcover)
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Life Beyond Death in Matthew's Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality? (Hardcover)
Series: Biblical Tools and Studies, v.13
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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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