5.20 Stephen Dempster • Reading • “The Seeds of Resurrection Hope in the Scriptures”

Resources to Click

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• “The Seeds of Resurrection Hope in the Scriptures” – Stephen Dempster
• “From slight peg to cornerstone to capstone: the resurrection of Christ on ‘the third day’ according to the Scriptures” – Stephen Dempster
• “As It Is Written: Old Testament Foundations For Jesus’ Expectation Of Resurrection” – Byron Wheaton
• “Isaac Typology in The New Testament” – Edwin Wood
• “Twice as Much of Your Spirit: Pattern, Parallel and Pronomasia in The Miracles of Elijah and Elisha” – Nachman Levine
• “’On the Third Day’: The Easter Traditions of the Primitive Church” – Gustav Stählin
• Theme of the Month: Resurrection in the Old Testament
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Books to Read

• Waking from the Dust: Daniel 12:2 and Resurrection Hope in Biblical Theology – Mitchell Chase
• “Resurrection: Old Testament” in the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary – David Noel Freedman, trans Terrence Prendergast
• A Theology of the Old Testament – John McKenzie
• Theologies In the Old Testament – Erhard Gerstenberger
• Bible Delight: Heartbeat of the Word of God – Christopher Ash
• Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life – Jon Levenson
• The Stories of Elijah and Elisha as Polemics against Baal Worship – Leila Leah Bronner
• “Resurrection: Early Judaism and Christianity,” in The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary – ed. David Noel Freeman
• I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus – George Eldon Ladd
• The Resurrection of the Son of God – N.T. Wright
• “Time,” in The Temple: Sacred Poems – George Herbert