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Life in the Face of Death: The Resurrection Message of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Life is for living, but there is also a dark side of life — the mocking specter of death that permeates every facet of human activity and invades every corner of our consciousness. But death is not the final chapter for the people of God. The New Testament proclaims a message of resurrection life that is victorious over death. This volume, written by eleven first-class scholars, brings into focus...

claiming, Jesus declares himself to be the fulfillment of traditional Jewish eschatological expectations, the one who embodies the power to raise from the dead, and the one who is the source of the positive verdict of eternal life. No longer are these eschatological features solely reserved for the last day; they are now presently available in and through Jesus. The significance of this saying is elaborated in the parallel clauses of 11:25b and 26a: “Those who believe in me, even though they die,
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