STANLEY E. PORTER, MICHAEL A. HAYES
AND DAVID TOMBS
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Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs
Introduction
Part I
Resurrection in the Bible
Brook W.R. Pearson
Resurrection and the Judgment of the Titans:
ἡ γῆ τῶν ἀσεβῶν in LXX Isaiah 26:19
Stanley E. Porter
Resurrection, the Greeks and the New Testament
Craig A. Evans
Did Jesus Predict his Death and Resurrection?
Margaret Barker
Resurrection: Reflections on a New Approach
Cynthia Long Westfall
The Relationshiop between the Resurrection,
the Proclamation to the Spirits in Prison and
Baptismal Regeneration: 1 Peter 2:19–22
Matthew Brook O’Donnell
Some New Testament Words for Resurrection and the Company They Keep
Part II
Resurrection in Christian Theology and Beyond
Arthur Gibson
Logic of the Resurrection
Gerald O’Collins, sj
The Risen Jesus: Analogies and Presence
David Tombs
Oscar Romero and Resurrection Hope
Delia Cortese
The Ismā-‘īlī Resurrection of Alamūt: A Bid for Spiritual
Awakening or a Statement of Political Authority?
Part III
Resurrection in the Arts and Literature
Norman Klassen
‘At the Resurreccioun of this Flour’: The Resurrection, Ambiguity
and Identity in Chaucer’s Poetry
Wendy J. Porter
Musical-Textual Relationships regarding Resurrection in the
Western Wind Settings of the Credo by John Taverner,
John Sheppard and Christopher Tye
Neil Taylor
Dying on Stage: ‘The Acting of a Dreadful Thing’
Pat Pinsent
‘He is not here’ (Luke 24:6): Christ’s Resurrection
in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
Graham Holderness
‘The Resurrection and the Life’:
D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Man who Died’
John Anonby
Resurrection as Political Vision in Two East African Novels
Kevin McCarron
‘I Have Been Dead and Am Alive Again’:
Resurrection in the Rehabilitation Narrative
The range of papers published in this volume testifies to the enduring fascination throughout history of the theme of resurrection. Spiritual resurrection is widely believed throughout the modern world’s living religions, but even bodily resurrection has an older tradition than Christianity, as ...
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About ResurrectionThe theme of Resurrection has continued to prove fascinating for a variety of writers and thinkers, finding expression not only in sacred texts but in other works of literature and the arts. This volume contains the papers from one of the Roehampton Institute London Conferences. In this volume, scholars from a variety of places and varying academic disciplines have addressed the concept of resurrection from a number of critical perspectives. As one might expect, these include analyses of how the resurrection is understood in the biblical and other religious traditions. Also included in this volume are sustained treatments of the concept of resurrection as it appears in various literary texts and other artistic forms of expression. |
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