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The New Testament figures of speech for resurrection include • Birth from barrenness • Awakening from sleep • Revival from thirst or hunger • Deliverance through baptismal waters of judgment • Release from imprisonment • Return from exile • Death decree and release • The raising up of a fallen tabernacle Return from Emmaus explores these figures of speech in the...

The Lord Jesus taught explicitly that the Hebrew Scriptures made necessary (Gk: dei) the fact of Mesiah’s resurrection. In light of the pervasiveness of such teaching in the New Testament it is astonishing that so little exegetical work by Christian scholars has been undertaken to explore such a doctrine. Luke’s account of the resurrection uses the expression “it was necessary” three times to emphasize the importance of the resurrection
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