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Evangelicalism’s most eminent scholars have labored over the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible to make it an indispensable tool for all who study Scripture. The general editor, Walter Elwell, earned everyone’s respect with his Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. His associate editors are trusted authors and editors in their own right: Peter Craigie, J. D. Douglas, Robert Guelich, R. K. Harrison,...

in large part from the experience of Jesus, whose dead body was not only brought to life but also transformed so that it was not bound by earth. His resurrection body was derived from the earthly. But Paul was sure that in the promised resurrection, life would return to the body without its present limitations and with new manifestations. Death, said Paul, is thereby “swallowed up in victory” (v 54). A body preserved in ash after the eruption of Vesuvius. ROBERT W. LYON See RESURRECTION; BODY OF
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