Bible Review

Josephus, Jewish War, 2.163 is taken to refer to resurrection.

Jacob Neusner, Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity (London: SPCK, 1984), p. 26f.

“The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan,” A-5, in Faith and Piety in Early Judaism. Texts and Documents ed. George W. E. Nickelsburg et al. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983), p. 32.

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 18.16. Cf. Jean Le Moyne, Les Sadduceens (Paris: Gabalda, 1972), pp. 167–175.

Hans C. Cavallin, Life After Death (Lund, Sweden: Gleerup, 1974); Cavallin, “Leben nach dem Tode im Spätjudentum und im frühen Christentum,” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2nd series, ed. Wolfgang Haase, vol. 19/1, (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1979), pp. 240–345.

Philo, On Dreams, 1.139

Harry A. Wolfson, Philo, vol. 1, 4th ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1968), p. 403f.

Philo, On the Giants, 15.

Andrew B. Davidson, The Theology of the Old Testament (Edinburgh, UK: T. & T. Clark, 1904), p. 439.

The Hebrew verb rendered “to receive, to take” is a technical term for heavenly assumption in Psalms 49:15 and 73:24, as well as in Genesis 5:24; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 9.