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In first century Judaism, there were many views concerning what happened to people after they died.
Following a very venerable tradition, some said that death was the end, that the dead simply returned to the dust of the earth from which they came.
Others maintained that the righteous dead would rise at the close of the age. Still others thought that the souls of the just went to live with God after the demise of their bodies. There were even some who believed in a kind of reincarnation.
Accounts of Jesus’ resurrection
What is particularly fascinating about the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection is that none of these familiar frameworks of understanding is invoked.