What Is Resurrection? In this lesson we begin a three lesson module on the resurrection of Jesus. The idea of resurrection has become a muddled concept in our contemporary times, but it was not always so. What are some of aspects of the contemporary paradigm of the early church’s teaching of resurrection that some people hold? What does the Scripture mean by resurrection when it is used in a metaphor? What did the word resurrection mean from the time of Homer onward until into the second century A. D.? How did the Greco-Roman world view death? Why do scholars today dismiss any suggestion that the dying and rising god’s of the ancient religions show any correspondence to the New Testament accounts of the resurrection of Jesus? How did ancient people view the possibility of someone returning bodily from the dead? How did the Judaism of Jesus’ time view the idea of resurrection? How was the concept of resurrection much more than merely belief in life after death? How did the events of Easter radically alter the understanding of many devout Jews? (51 min)
Lesson 44: Review Questions
Lesson 44: Lesson Notes

Tags: Resurrection, Jesus, Life, Death, Life after Death