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What can it profit either a Christian to profess faith without the benefit of belief in the Resurrection, or a Jew to believe in the Resurrection without the benefit of Christian faith? Perhaps one should, as Lapide has, enter theological study of the New Testament without the shackles of Christian faith. On the other hand, it could also be argued that there can be no meaningful theological study of the New Testament without the benefit of Christian faith...
...waltz, she cautions us, is not as easy as it looks, and clumsiness is painful. But to dance like bears, off the beat, around and around--the necessary dance of men and women--is what Elizabeth Hardwick writes about so gracefully and so well. Sleepless Nights is a testament to the dance, a beautiful addition to the record of men and women...
...religions both derive from the same God, says Lapide, Christianity could not be founded upon a lie. And since it "stands or falls" with the Easter story, Lapide concludes that the church was "born out of an act of the will of God, which all the New Testament authors call the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead...
...centuries before Jesus was born, Lapide points out, Judaism began believing in a future, generalized resurrection of believers, which became a tenet of Orthodoxy. In addition, the Jewish tradition includes six accounts of God reawakening the dead, three of them in the Old Testament (I Kings 17: 22, II Kings 4: 35 and 13: 21). Lapide sees no religious reason why Jesus could not have been the seventh "dead Jew revived by the will of God," although the New Testament describes Jesus' resurrected body as having a changed nature...
...Jewish standards, Lapide explains, a certain skepticism about Jesus' Resurrection is understandable. He notes that New Testament accounts tell of more than 500 Jews who saw the resurrected Jesus (I Corinthians 15: 5-8), so it was not a universal experience among Jews. But, Lapide argues, "if the Disciples were totally disappointed and on the verge of desperate flight because of the very real reason of the Crucifixion, it took another very real reason in order to transform them from a band of disheartened and dejected Jews into the most self-confident missionary society in world history." He concludes...