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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...

either a rising up (i.e., standing erect) of someone who has been in a reclining position or a coming to life again of someone who has died. In its basic sense, “resurrection” denotes a person’s restoration to life after an interval spent in the realm of the dead. Paul’s favorite verb to denote resurrection is egeirō (“rouse,” “rise up”), which he uses to refer to either the resurrection of Christ or the resurrection of believers—with the verb being applied to both in 2 Cor 4:14 (see further Harris,
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