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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...

hope in the reflection that the fate of those who trust in God must be different from that of those who trust in riches. God’s justice and God’s love are at stake in this. The breakthrough in these psalms is the conviction that even death cannot frustrate God’s justice and God’s love. If necessary, God’s justice and love must triumph even beyond death. What is new here is not these psalmists’ belief that the righteous God will vindicate the righteous against their oppressors or their conviction that
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