puts that of Caesar in the shade. Jesus is the true ‘son of God’. He comes from a royal house far older than anything Rome can claim: that of David, a thousand years before. His resurrection, which Paul sees not as a strange freak or bizarre miracle but as the beginning of ‘the resurrection of the dead’ for which most Jews had been longing, is the sign of a power which trumps that of tyrants and bullies the world over. Death is their final weapon, and he has broken it. But Paul isn’t just writing