Daniel 12:2
The Verse That Imported the Afterlife eFireTemple “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” — Daniel 12:2 “The first and only clear reference to the resurrection of the dead in the Hebrew Bible.” — Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible (2018) The Single Verse Hypothesis Christianity is a religion of resurrection. Take resurrection out and the structure collapses. There is no Pauline gospel without 1 Corinthians 15.
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The Verse That Imported the Afterlife eFireTemple “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” — Daniel 12:2 “The first and only clear reference to the resurrection of the dead in the Hebrew Bible.” — Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible (2018) The Single Verse Hypothesis Christianity is a religion of resurrection. Take resurrection out and the structure collapses. There is no Pauline gospel without 1 Corinthians 15. There is no Apostles’ Creed without “the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” There is no Christian eschatology, no Last Judgment, no New Heaven and New Earth, no concept of personal salvation as the soul’s passage from death to eternal life. The entire architecture of Christian hope rests on one assumption: that the dead rise. This article makes a narrow, falsifiable claim.
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Hebrew Bible · Old Testament · New Testament