Resurrection

I finally read Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson, Yale 2008. The authors teach at Harvard; Madigan is Professor of the History of Christianity, and Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies. I had learned a lot from Levenson's The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son and Creation and the Persistence of Evil, and I was curious about this cooperative project.

The resurrection of the body is a great theme to explore the development of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism from Second Temple Judaism. The book is very readable, and it would make a great resource for a church study group, or, better yet, a study group of Christians and Jews.