Life beyond death in Matthew's Gospel
Subtitle: religious metaphor or bodily reality?
By: edited by Wim Weren, Huub van de Sandt and Joseph Verheyden
Series: Biblical tools and studies -- volume 13; Biblical tools and studies -- v. 13.
Publisher: Peeters; Peeters Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789042925182
Subjects: Bible; Eschatology; Ewiges Leben; Resurrection of Jesus Christ; Criticism, interpretation; 11.46 study and interpretation of the New Testament; Auferstehung Jesu; Matthäusevangelium; Congresses; Biblical teaching; Resurrection; Auferstehung
Description: The central question of this book is whether Jesus' resurrection is a religious metaphor or a bodily reality. What does Matthew focus on when telling the story of Jesus death, the empty tomb, and the appearance to the disciples? A great variety of questions come up for review: How does Matthew interpret the concept of resurrection and how does his picture of Jesus' resurrection chime in with other concerns in his gospel? How does the story of God raising Jesus from the dead fit in with (other) historical facts? Does Matthew perceive Jesus' resurrection as an event in which the body is also involved? Is resurrection more than a continuation of our temporal existence, more than a coming back to a life identical to our present life? These and other questions are dealt with in twelve papers written by distinguished scholars from across the globe. The volume is divided into two major sections. The first section deals with the variety and development of ideas and beliefs about the afterlife. It studies the relationship between Matthews understanding of a post-mortem existence and interpretations of that phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, Greco-Roman writings, early Jewish and early Christian literature. The second section moves from the broad topics to specific textual units in Matthew about resurrection, immortality, afterlife and eternal life. Various relevant texts are singled out for particular study. This volume is dedicated to Professor Wim Weren on the occasion of his retirement from the Tilburg chair of New Testament Exegesis in the School of Humanities.
Notes: Papers from a conference held April 2009, Tilburg School of Humanities.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Hebrew Bible :; title: LXX and the development of ideas on the afterlife in Matthew  -- Paul G. Foster; title: Resurrection in the Gospels of Matthew and Peter :; title: some developments  -- Tobias Nicklas; title: Resurrection in the Gospel of Matthew :; title: reality and symbol  -- Claudia Setzer; title: Resurrection or assumption?; title: Matthew's view of the post-mortem vindication of Jesus  -- Kari Syreeni; title: Matthew and the fate of humankind  -- J. Andrew Overman; title: The soul which cannot be killed by men (Matt 10:28)  -- Dieter Zeller; title: Eternal life as a reward for choosing the right way :; title: the story of the rich young man (Matt 19 : 16-30)  -- Huub van de Sandt; title: The controversy between Jesus and the Sadducees about the resurrection (Matt 22:23-33) in the context of early Jewish eschatology  -- Adelbert Denaux; title: The scriptural background of a Matthean legend :; title: Ezekiel 37, Zechariah 14, and Matthew 27  -- Dale C. Allison; title: Matthew's stories about Jesus' burial and resurrection (27:55-28:20) as the climax of his Gospel  -- Wim Weren; title: The great escape :; title: some comments on a controversial suggestion for explaining Matt 28:2-4  -- Joseph Verheyden; title: "Bodily Resurrection" of Jesus in Matthew? -- Jürgen Zangenberg.