Abstract
The author reveals the following sequence in the formation of the Jewish doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead: during the Babylonian captivity of the Judaeans, a naturalistic allegory of their revival upon their expected return to their Motherland arises (Ezek. 37:1–14, Isa. 26:19, 41:14); by the end of the period of exile / at the very beginning of the Persian period, the personified image of the people’s rising from the dead is developing (the allegory of the Servant of the Lord in Isa. 42:1–9, 49: 1–7, 50:4–9, 52:13–53:12; perhaps also the image of Job, cf. especially: Job 19:25–27a and 42:5, 7–17). In the time of another national catastrophe — the persecution of the faithful Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes — the concept of an individual eschatological resurrection in the flesh arises; at this receiving of the afterlife requital is assumed to be realized in the body (Dan. 12:1b–3, 13).
Highlights
The Book of the Judaean prophet Isaiah 26:19 contains an allegory of the revival of the Jews in their native land after the Lord “punishes the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquities”1: Thy dead will come back to life, the dead bodies of my2 will rise!3 Wake up and rejoice you, dwelling in the dust, for Thy dew the dew of the light4, and the earth will give birth5 to her dead
The prophet Ezekiel, who lived among the Jewish exiles in the first decades of the Babylonian captivity9, in one of his prophecies creates a naturalistic image of the people of Israel rising from the dead in exile, whom the Lord God eventually brings home, to the Land of Israel (Ezek. 37: 1–14)
9 Ezekiel was among the Judaeans who were exiled to Babylonia in 597 B.C.E. by King
Summary
The Book of the Judaean prophet Isaiah 26:19 contains an allegory of the revival of the Jews in their native land after the Lord “punishes the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquities”1: Thy dead will come back to life, the dead bodies of my (people)2 will rise!3 Wake up and rejoice you, dwelling in the dust, for Thy dew (will be) the dew of the (reviving) light4, and the earth will give birth5 to her dead.6.
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