Resurrection and the restoration of Israel : the ultimate victory of the God of life / / Jon D. Levenson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Levenson, Jon Douglas.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xix, 274 p.

Table of Contents

• The modern Jewish preference for immortality
• Resurrection in the Torah?
• Up from Sheol
• Are Abraham, Moses, and Job in Sheol?
• Intimations of immortality
• Individual mortality and familial resurrection
• The man of God performs a resurrection
• "Death, be broken!"
• The widow re-wed, her children restored
• Israel's exodus from the grave
• The fact of death and the promise of life
• "He keeps faith with those who sleep in the dust"
• God's ultimate victory
• Epilogue: the two horns of the ram.