The problems this dissertation addresses are (1) why resurrection is a persistent theme in Paul's letter to the Romans; and (2) what function resurrection performs in the letter. The study begins with an investigation of the function that resurrection performs in Second Temple J…
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Although the theme of resurrection is rare in the Hebrew Canon, stories of resurrection occur frequently in the novelistic literature of the Hellenistic world. Have these stories influenced the content or presentation of the resurrection theme in the Gospel of Mark? Through a re…
More than one hundred English plays that survive from the period between the rise of the Tudors and the closing of the theaters in 1642 employ a plot of false death: a narrative in which a character dies and returns to life within the play. The use of this type of device essenti…
The intention of this project is to explicate several arguments advanced in the esoteric treatise Al-Risalah al-Ad[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]awiyya fi amr al-Mac ad , Avicenna's treatise par excellence on the subject of resurrection. This study of Ad[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]awiyya is prim…
The insertion of ὁ ἀγαπητός ("beloved") into the allusion to Ps. 2:7 in Mk. 1:11 echoes the command to sacrifice Isaac in Gen. 22:2 and evokes the wider-ranging theme of the "death and resurrection of the beloved son." When read in light of the "Davidization" and "historicizatio…
What sources informed the resurrection narrative of Jesus in the Gospel of John? Some scholars argue that the author of John used the Synoptic Gospels along with oral traditions as sources, but others maintain that John used only independent traditions to write his resurrection …