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5 - The Risen Jesus

from Part I - Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Markus Bockmuehl
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
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University of Oxford
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Summary

The resurrection of Jesus, pivotal to Christian history and praxis, is universally attested in early Christian sources, even if often critiqued or sidelined as myth or apologetics in modern scholarship. Paul’s letters and of the Gospels in their narrative diversity document the resurrection’s transformative and abiding impact on Jesus’s followers. In bringing the aspirations of myth and metaphor to fruition in time, the resurrection of Jesus is both an event in history and yet constitutes a new reality that transcends the register of available language and analogy.

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resurrectionhistoryPaulGospelstheology
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 72 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Alkier, Stefan. 2013. The Reality of the Resurrection: The New Testament Witness. Translated by L. A. Huizenga. Waco: Baylor University Press.Google Scholar
Allison, Dale C. 2021. The Resurrection of Jesus. London: T & T Clark.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bryan, Christopher. 2011. The Resurrection of the Messiah. New York: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elledge, C. D. 2017. Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE–CE 200. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Farrow, Douglas. 2011. Ascension Theology. London: T & T Clark.Google Scholar
Habermas, Gary R. 2021. Risen Indeed: A Historical Investigation into the Resurrection of Jesus. Ashland: Lexham Press.Google Scholar
Levenson, Jon D. 2006. Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Levering, Matthew. 2019. Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Licona, Mike. 2010. The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. Downers Grove: IVP Academic/Apollos.Google Scholar
Setzer, Claudia. 2004. Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition. Leiden: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, Rowan. 1982. Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel. London: Darton, Longman & Todd.Google Scholar
Wright, N. T. 2003. The Resurrection of the Son of God. London: SPCK.Google Scholar

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