[ET 31:8]; Ezek 20:10). For instance, in Isa 43 God promises to gather all the exiled people of Israel, leading them home: BIBLICAL BACKGROUND Resurrection from the Dead according to Paul It would not be an exaggeration to say that resurrection is the key to Paul’s theology. Like some other Jews in the first century, Paul thought that God would raise the dead at the end of history (Dan 12; 2 Macc 7). Paul and other early Christians believed that this end-time event had already begun because Jesus