A study of the formation and development in early Judaism of a belief in a future resurrection from the grave. It draws on evidence from the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, inscriptions, and archaeology. Cover -- RESURRECTION OF THE...
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A study of the formation and development in early Judaism of a belief in a future resurrection from the grave. It draws on evidence from the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, inscriptions, and archaeology. Cover -- RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD IN EARLY JUDAISM 200 BCE-CE 200 -- Copyright -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter 1: Studying Resurrection Today -- DEFINING RESURRECTION -- CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF RESURRECTION -- THE DYNAMIC RECEPTION OF A CONTROVERSIAL THEODICY -- Chapter 2: Diversity -- MODES OF EMBODIMENT -- Daniel -- The Book of Watchers (1 En. 1-36) -- The Epistle of Enoch (1 En. 91-108) -- 2 Maccabees -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- 4 Ezra/ 2 Baruch -- LANDSCAPES OF REDEMPTION -- Daniel -- The Book of Watchers (1 En. 1-36) -- Epistle of Enoch ( 1 En . 91-108) -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- 2 Maccabees/ Biblical Antiquities -- 4 Ezra/ 2 Baruch -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: Origins, Contexts -- THE PERSIAN ZOROASTRIAN HYPOTHESIS -- ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS -- SOCIAL CONTEXTS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: Legitimation -- THE LANGUAGE OF PROPHECY -- THE LANGUAGE OF CREATION -- THE NECESSITY OF JUSTICE -- Chapter 5: Denial -- SCRIPTURAL TRADITION AND JEWISH WISDOM -- COMPLAINING ABOUT SINNERS -- JOSEPHUS AND HIPPOLYTUS ON THE SADDUCEES -- LEGITIMATIONS AND DENIAL -- Chapter 6: Resurrection and Immortality -- EARLY JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS OF IMMORTALITY -- Wisdom of Solomon (first century BCE/CE) -- Philo of Alexandria ( c.15 BCE- c.CE 50) -- Josephu (37-post 100 CE) -- 4 Maccabees (first-early second century CE) -- Pseudo-Phocylides, Sentences (first century BCE-CE) -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7: Resurrection and the Book of Watchers -- HISTORICAL SETTING OF THE BOOK OF WATCHERS (1 ENOCH 1-36) -- DIVINE JUDGMENT IN CHAPTERS 6-19 -- RESURRECTION IN CHAPTERS 20-36 -- The Eschatologi al Life is Paradisiac -- The Eschatological Life is Physical and Earthly -- The Eschatological Life is Antediluvian, but Not Everlasting -- THE BOOK OF WATCHERS AND THE HISTORY OF RESURRECTION -- Chapter 8: The Dead Sea Scrolls.
