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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...

Belief in eternal life and judgment after death was a late development in the Jewish religion. It appears only in a few texts within the Hebrew Bible. But it became general and dominant in Jewish belief in the latter part of the Second Temple period. How did this happen? There are two ways of answering this question. One is to inquire into the specific historical circumstances in which belief in life after death originated and gained widespread
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