TY - BOOK AU - Bryan,Christopher TI - The resurrection of the Messiah SN - 9780199752096 (hbk. : alk. paper) AV - BT482 .B78 2011 U1 - 232.9/7 22 PY - 2011///] CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jesus Christ N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-416) and indexes; Part I. The Setting : -- 1. The hope of Israel -- 2. Death and the afterlife in the Greco-Roman world beyond Israel -- 3. The Christian claim -- Part II. Witnesses : -- 4. Paul -- 5. Mark -- 6. Matthew -- 7. Luke -- 8. John -- Part III. Questioning the Witnesses : -- 9. What should we make of the witnesses' claims? -- 10. So what? A partially unscientific postscript -- Additional Notes : -- A. On varieties of faith in early Christianity -- B. On whether the New Testament narratives are useful sources of information about anything that may actually have happened -- C. Are the passion narratives examples of "the prophetization of history" or of "the historicization of prophecy"? -- D. The resurrection of the dead and Torah -- E.: The Alexamenos graffito and texts of terror -- F. Further reflections on Paul's understanding of resurrection as involving a transformed physicality -- G. Further reflections on Paul's understanding of our present experience of transformation in and through Christ -- H. The New Testament and the negative eschaton : the possibility of damnation ER -