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3. Resurrection in Ancient Judaism From the second century BCE onward clear traces of resurrection can be found in some Jewish texts. Claudia Setzer summarises the ambivalent views of ancient Judaism admirably: … Jewish materials from the second century BCE through the first century CE exhibit a ra...

eta wrt 1 Cor 3:4: "He was raised" = ἐγήγερται / egēgertai : from ἐγείρω / egeiró : to waken, to raise up (7 of the 9 NT occurrences are in 1 Corinthians; one in Mark 6:14 (wrt Herod postulating John the Baptist) ; and one in Matthew 11:11 (it's a less common Greek verb for rise or raise ...

1 Cor 15:3-5 ought be considered in light of the previous two verses: 1 I now make known to you, brothers, the gospel a that I proclaimed b to you, which you received and in which you stand, 2 by which you are being/shall be saved, by which c logo [ s ] d I proclaimed b ... a εὐαγγέλιον / euangelion...

Not necessarily: if the Marcionite gospeltext post-dates the Pauline letters, +/- its author used them, the way the Markan author/s is/are thought to have used them, then the issue of which 'gospel' came first would be still in play.

Were the Marcionites the keepers of the original Christian faith? (1) Was their faith represented by the original Pauline epistles? If so, where did the author of the original Pauline epistles get his ideas from? Are you referring to the Marcionite versions of the Pauline gospels? or, Are you refer...

God sent forth his Son,

It might not be eschatological, but it's certainly thematic of Judaism of the time

Early Christians in the era of the Kitos Wars and the Bar Kokhba uprising separated God from the Jews in two ways. Or that the God of the Jews is a minor demiurge. Or that the God of the Jews is the only God that the Jews did not understand Who were the first christ devotees and did they honor a po...

Most High = Ὑψίστου Of its eight uses in the NT, five are in Luke (with three of those five being in Luke 1: in vv. 32, 35 and 76; and one in each of Luke 6:35 and 8:28); one in each of Acts 16:17 and Hebrews 7:1; and, as noted, in Mark 5:7). ὑψίστοις = 'in the highest' is in Mark 11:1, Matthew 21:9...

John Granger Cook (2017) 'Resurrection in Paganism and the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15,' New Testament Studies , 63 (1); pp.56-75 Abstract 2 In ancient Judaism (from the second century BCE on), the existing evidence demonstrates that individuals viewed resurrection as physical (i....

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