Lectionary Year A
April 4, 1999
John 20:1-18

Step IV: Broader Context

A. NT/PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY

(FS) a. Resurrection as key to proclamation of the Gospel in the early Church: passages like Acts 2:31, 4:33, 17:18; 1 Cor. 15

b. Mary Magdalene: Luke 8:2, "seven demons cast out"; Luke 8:1-3 has her as part of a group of women followers of Jesus who helped support him and the circle of disciples.

John 19: 25 has her as one of the tiny group with Jesus as he died on the cross.

B. OT/JUDAISM

(FS) a. Resurrection "according to the Scriptures": like Psalm 16:8-11?

b. Matthew 22:23 notes that the Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection of the body. Was this an item of dispute back then?

Friends and colleagues, I'm a long way from the library. Did anyone find anything on what people in 1st century Jewish and Hellenistic cultures thought about the possibility of the resurrection of the dead?

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