The Resurrection of the Dead: Jesus and Philo

Downing, F. Gerald

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“…The best argument of this kind is that of F. Gerald Downing (1982), who notes that Philo takes the three patriarchs to represent teaching (διδασκαλία), nature (ϕύσις) and practice (ἄσκησις), claiming that God bound himself to these eternal virtues rather than to specific human persons ( Abraham 54-55).…”

Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Downing, Philo (here and elsewhere: Migration 125; Names 12-14; and Moses 1.75-76) considers the binding of God to the patriarchs to be problematic, for the eternal cannot be bound to the mortal. Thus, the association of the patriarchs raised ‘awkward and inescapable questions about mortality’ (1982: 47). Downing affirms that Jesus shared this concern and resolved it not by allegory, but by positing that the patriarchs themselves were eternal and immortal (1982: 44-45).…”

Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the association of the patriarchs raised ‘awkward and inescapable questions about mortality’ (1982: 47). Downing affirms that Jesus shared this concern and resolved it not by allegory, but by positing that the patriarchs themselves were eternal and immortal (1982: 44-45).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, the fact that Philo allegorizes here does not prove that he did so out of concern for the separation of mortal and immortal. Downing makes no clear argument to justify that inference, and even concedes that there is ambiguity as to whether Philo found the junction of divine and mortal so problematic (1982: 50 n. 7). 25 Secondly, Downing asserts that, while Philo’s solution reflects his Middle Platonic worldview, the problem itself was felt by his contemporaries outside this worldview.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 21. For discussion of all of these hypotheses, see Trick (2007). This article will interact primarily with Trick 2007, Dreyfus 1959 and, to a lesser extent, Downing 1982. …”

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Resurrection in Mark 12: Refining the Covenant Hypothesis

MacDonald

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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The defence of resurrection in Mk 12.18-27 has been understood in various ways, based on different reconstructions of the logic of Jesus’ citation of Exod. 3.6. These various approaches may be generally grouped under two broad categories: ‘present relationship’ hypotheses and ‘covenant/context’ hypotheses. This study evaluates those approaches, seeking to critique the existing covenant/context proposals of F. Dreyfus (1959) and Bradley R. Trick (2007) and extend their insights in new directions. In doing so, it focuses on citation context and similar reasoning in other early Jewish and Christian texts, including an overlooked analogue in Heb. 11. It will be argued that this context and these analogues lend support to a revised version of the covenant/context hypothesis that understands Mk 12 as predicating resurrection on divine faithfulness to the covenant between God and the patriarchs.

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Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

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Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ‘Present Relationship’ Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 21. For discussion of all of these hypotheses, see Trick (2007). This article will interact primarily with Trick 2007, Dreyfus 1959 and, to a lesser extent, Downing 1982. …”

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Resurrection in Mark 12: Refining the Covenant Hypothesis

MacDonald

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Some Neglected Aspects of the Exegetical Debate on Resurrection and the Immortality of the Soul between William Tyndale and George Joye in Antwerp (1534-1535)

Juhász

2009

Reformation

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The debate between William Tyndale and George Joye on "translating resurrection" (changing Tyndale's "resurreccion" into "the lyfe after this" or some other similar expression in twenty-two places in a 1534 Antwerp reprint of Tyndale's 1526 Worms New Testament) has received relatively little scholarly attention. Based on primary sources, this article presents an original account of the history of the debate and highlights some generally neglected elements in it. Tyndale's charges against Joye are examined in the light of the available evidence and Joye's Apologye (1535). Based on the available sources, it becomes clear that Tyndale's second foreword in his November 1534 New Testament is largely responsible for the misrepresentation of Joye's standpoint in current secondary literature and that Joye's motive for changing Tyndale's New Testament was not the negation of the bodily resurrection but a reaction to Luther's (and Tyndale's) tenet on soul-sleep by applying the findings of the exegetical studies of his times (e.g. by Huldrych Zwingli) to the translation of text. Thanks to the debate, we have a better understanding of the eschatological ideas of the early English Reformation

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Jesus and nostalgia: A nostalgia construction of ‘ho theos tōn paterōn – ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων’ for facing an identity crisis (Mt 22:32)

Surbakti¹,

Andangsari

2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Several theologians unanimously accorded well with the notion that the writer of the Gospel of Matthew was a pastoral theologian. Nevertheless, the pastoral dimension of Matthew 22:32 has not been subjected to much scrutiny. In the text, Jesus celebrated the tradition of calling the God as the ‘God of the Fathers’. The tradition revealed that Jesus adapted the pastoral approach, which is termed as nostalgia in psychology. In empirical psychology researches, utilising nostalgia provides many positive benefits for people who have psychological problems, including an identity crisis. By using a psychological text to sharpen the understanding of the biblical text, this research showed the nostalgic construction in the tradition as a pastoral approach to the readers who were in a situation of a major crisis.Contribution: By using the nostalgia as a psychological text, this article attempts to explore the pastoral dimension of Matthew 22:32, which seems absent in the study of Matthew 22:32.

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The Resurrection of the Dead: Jesus and Philo

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Resurrection in Mark 12: Refining the Covenant Hypothesis

Resurrection in Mark 12: Refining the Covenant Hypothesis

Some Neglected Aspects of the Exegetical Debate on Resurrection and the Immortality of the Soul between William Tyndale and George Joye in Antwerp (1534-1535)

Jesus and nostalgia: A nostalgia construction of ‘ho theos tōn paterōn – ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων’ for facing an identity crisis (Mt 22:32)

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