The picture in the synagogue at Dura understands the resurrection of the dead not as an image for the liberation of the exiles of Israel, but as a real resurrection of the dead. Insofar as it represents this resurrection against the background of a mountain which is split in two and on which there is a house collapsing in the earthquake, it reveals that it has understood the רעשׂ (“rustling”) of 37:7*, on the pattern of the earthquake in 38:19f*, as an eschatological event and finds expressed
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