In principle, the Old Testament is not opposed to the idea of a resurrection. Indeed, Jesus himself argued for the idea of resurrection from the fundamental Old Testament credo that the God who is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the God of the living, not of the dead (Matt. 22:32). But the focus of the Old Testament is more centrally on the Lord’s power over death, whether by rescuing the saints from its clutches (Ps. 18:4–19) or by the miraculous resuscitation of the dead (1 Kings 17:17–24;