Where Did the Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection Come From?

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Secret Alias
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Re: Where Did the Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection Come From?

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If you read Chadwick's article here there is an important wrinkle to note - Origen's doctrine of the resurrection seems to have inferred that individuals will rise - not with an anthropomorphic shape but a 'spherical' one because of Plato. This was the charge of Justinian and Chadwick cites an important passage from Origen where the heavenly beings are said to have spherical shape for this reason. So in essence, Origen's bodily resurrection is really Philo's astral translation in the guise of the orthodox doctrine. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1508085?re ... b_contents
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Re: Where Did the Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection Come From?

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Secret Alias wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:30 amPhilo makes clear that "Jews" - the true Oniad tradition - expected the promise of heavenly translation. Gen 15:5 = astral life. Somehow the true tradition was corrupted by a non or extra-Pentateuchal understanding and it took over all three traditions for reasons I can't understand.
Not related to your excellent question, but: What do you mean by "true" tradition and "corrupted"? Do you mean "original"/"First Century BCE" and "changed"/"influenced by"?
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Re: Where Did the Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection Come From?

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I mean the Oniads were the original orthodoxy who happened to have left Jerusalem
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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