Resurrection and the restoration of Israel: The ultimate victory of the God of life

Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-274

  Levenson, Jon D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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136. Margaret S. Odell and John T. Strong (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), 43-67
137. John W. Rogerson, "Anthropology and the Old Testament, " in The World of Ancient Israel, ed. R. E. Clements (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 25.
138. Jon D. Levenson, "The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, " in The Idea of Biblical Interpretation, ed. Najman and Newman, 4-7.
139. Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979), 314-16 and 519-20.
140. John J. Collins puts it in Daniel, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 392.
141. Carol A. Newsom, "The Sage in the Literature of Qumran: The Functions of the MÁSKIL, " in The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990), 373-82.
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144. Thomas H. McAlpine, Sleep, Divine and Human, in the Old Testament, JSOTSS 38 (Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987), 15-17.
145. Dale B. Martin, The Corinthian Body (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 123-29.
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147. John Day, "The Development of Belief in Life after Death in Ancient Israel, " in After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason, ed. John Barton and David J. Reimer (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press), 248-57.
148. Nathan MacDonald, Deuteronomy and the Meaning of "Monotheism, " FAT 1, second series (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), 160-62, 165-66.
149. Claudia Setzer, The Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition (Leiden: Brill, 2004), esp. pp. 44-52.
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151. Theodore J. Lewis, "Mot, " ABD, 4:922-24.
152. Patrick D. Miller, The Divine Warrior in Early Israel, HSM 5 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973).
153. Contra Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, " in Ecology and Religion in History, ed. David and Eileen Spring (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), 15-31.
154. James Barr, "Man and Nature-The Ecological Controversy and the Old Testament, " BJRL 55:1 (1972): 9-32.
155. Moshe Weinfeld, Justice and Righteousness in Israel and the Nations: Equality and Freedom in Ancient Israel in Light of Social Justice in the Ancient Near East (Hebrew; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1985), esp. pp. 12-56.
156. Sigmund Mowinckel, The Psalms in Israel's Worship, 2 vols. (New York: Abingdon, 1967), 1:107-9, and 2:222-24.
157. Marc Hirshman, Torah for the Entire World (Hebrew; Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999).
158. Solomon Schechter, Aspects of Rabbinic Theology: Major Concepts of the Talmud (New York: Schocken, 1961), 242-63.
159. Joel S. Kaminsky, "Paradise Regained: Rabbinic Reflections on Israel at Sinai, " in Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, ed. Alice Ogden Bellis and Joel S. Kaminsky, SBLSS 8 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), 15-43.
160. Shalom Spiegel, The Last Trial (New York: Behrman House, 1950), passim. Note especially Spiegel's discussion of the connection of the merit accrued in the aqedah to the future resurrection of the dead on pp. 109-13.
161. R. W. L. Moberly, "The Earliest Commentary on the Akedah, " VT 38 (1988): 302-23,