When Yeshua disputes with the Sadducees concerning the resurrection, he says, “But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the Burning Bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken” (Mark 12:26–27). This is midrash, an imaginative use of Scripture that discovers new and unexpected meaning in a familiar
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