Resurrection of Jesus Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text===Jewish=== {{See also|Jewish eschatology|Resurrection of the dead}} In Judaism, the idea of resurrection first emerges in the 3rd century BC [[Book of Enoch#The Book of the Watchers|Book of Watchers]]{{sfn|Elledge|2017|pp=130ff}} and in the 2nd century BC [[Book of Daniel]],{{sfn|Schäfer|2003|pp=72–73}} the later possibly as a belief in the resurrection of the [[soul]] alone, which was then developed by the Pharisees as a belief in bodily resurrection, an idea completely alien to the Greeks.{{sfn|Schäfer|2003|pp=72–73}} [[Josephus]] tells of the three main Jewish sects of the 1st century AD, that the [[Sadducees]] held that both soul and body perished at death; the [[Essenes]] that the soul was immortal but the flesh was not; and the [[Pharisees]] that the soul was immortal and that the body would be resurrected to house it.{{sfn|Schäfer|2003|p=72}} Of these three positions, Jesus and the early Christians appear to have been closest to that of the Pharisees.{{sfn|Van Voorst|2000|p=430}} [[Steve Mason (biblical scholar)|Steve Mason]] notes that for the Pharisees, "the new body is a special, holy body", which is different from the old body, "a view shared to some extent by the ex-Pharisee Paul (1. Cor. 15:35ff)".{{sfn|Mason|2001|p=169}} The evidence from Jewish texts and from tomb inscriptions points to a more complex reality: for example, when the author of the Book of Daniel wrote that "many of those sleeping in the dust shall awaken",<ref>{{Bibleref2|Dan|12:2}}</ref> religion scholar [[Dag Øistein Endsjø]] believes he probably had in mind a rebirth as [[angel]]ic beings (metaphorically described as stars in God's Heaven, stars having been identified with angels from early times); such a rebirth would rule out a bodily resurrection, as angels were believed to be fleshless.{{sfn|Endsjø|2009|pp=124–125}} Other scholars hold that Daniel exposes a belief in a bodily resurrection.{{sfn|Elledge|2017|pp=21, 23}} Other texts range from the traditional Old Testament view that the soul would spend eternity in the underworld, to a metaphorical belief in the raising of the spirit.{{sfn|Lehtipuu|2015|pp=31–32}} Most avoided defining what resurrection might imply, but a resurrection of the flesh was a marginal belief.{{sfn|Endsjø|2009|p=145}} As Outi Lehtipuu states, "belief in resurrection was far from being an established doctrine"{{sfn|Lehtipuu|2015|pp=32}} of [[Second Temple Judaism]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page