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God Raised Him from the Dead

God Raised Him from the Dead. Disciples scared, scattered Jesus lives on the other side of death. Easter Experience. Idea of life beyond death is present Both Yahweh bring dead to life Resurrection of the dead Can’t say precisely what the Easter experience is like for disciples

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God Raised Him from the Dead

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  1. God Raised Him from the Dead • Disciples scared, scattered • Jesus lives on the other side of death

  2. Easter Experience • Idea of life beyond death is present • Both Yahweh bring dead to life • Resurrection of the dead • Can’t say precisely what the Easter experience is like for disciples • Did they see him with their eyes? Hear him speak? Touch him with hands? • Was it interior? Was it a revelatory experience? • Easter stories from NT don’t help much • Jesus appear, then disappears • Doors, locks don’t hinder him • Mark suggests there is something ‘different’ about Jesus

  3. Easter Experience • Scholars opinions • Vary considerably • Subjective experience • Resurrection is something that happens to disciples not to Jesus • Becomes product of faith • Visionary experiences • Revelatory experience of disciples • Conversion of Jesus to Christ Easter is grace • Closest to Jesus came to believe w/o doubt Jesus was alive

  4. Easter Tradition • Two distinct strands • Easter kerygma (proclamation) • Easter stories • Helps us understand disciples’ experience • Understand early communities’ response

  5. Easter Language • Early kerygma (proclamation) of Q community had no proclamation of Resurrection • Heavenly Jesus is present in Christian prophets & coming in Parousia • Terms exalted or exaltation are used in place of Resurrection • Exaltationbrought from dead & enthroned at God’s right hand • John: raised both on cross & to the Father • Luke Acts: 40 day break b/w Resurrection & Ascension • Luke Gospel: Ascension on Sunday night

  6. Easter Language • Resurrection: two words in NT • Egeirein to awaken • anastanai to arise or to raise up • Most often: he was raised up • Resurrection happened to Jesus • God’s action • ‘Jesus rose from the dead’ less frequently • Resurrection language is metaphorical awakened from sleep • Resurrection is eschatological event Jesus lives on other side of space, time, history • Completely with God

  7. Easter Kerygma • Short, formulaic expressions of belief in resurrection • From earliest dates of the Church • Predates Gospels & letters of Paul • Early, important example comes from Corinthians • See pg115 • Not dramatic description, no details • More like a report or proclamation than imaginative • Other examples (pg116)

  8. Easter Stories • Developed later • Dramatic, imaginative accounts • Narratives with dialogue, vivid details • Two types of Easter stories • Discovery of empty tomb • Appearance stories • Originally separate traditions • Tomb Jerusalem • Appearance Galilee • Often appear together • Do not always agree • Women & Mary Magdalene

  9. Easter Stories • Mark 16:1-8 • Oldest Easter story • Only an empty tomb story, no appearance stories • Reflective of early Jerusalem Christian community cultic experience no empty tomb, no celebration • Mathew • Builds on Mark • Jesus appears to women on way to tomb • Empty tomb, bribing of guards • Appearance to 11 on Galilee mountaintop

  10. Easter Stories • Luke • Transposes location to Jerusalem • Acts differs from Gospel • John • Differs from Synoptics • Mary Magdalene finds empty tomb • Peter and John at tomb • Appendix fishing story, tradition of Beloved disciple, redemption of Peter

  11. Easter Stories • Do not agree • Which women went to tomb • How many young men • Where appearances took place • Not historical accounts of Easter experience • Testimonies to Easter faith • Written to make faith available to others • Highly theological reflections on disciples Easter experience purpose is evangelical

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