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Contemporary Interpretative Problems:—The Resurrection of Israel

Few interpretive problems in eschatology test an interpreter’s skill like the doctrine of the resurrection of Israel. The subject has been ignored by liberals and neo-orthodox theologians who have been more concerned with the question of whether resurrection is literal or not. Within such a context particular attention to Israel could hardly be expected. Orthodox theology has often assumed that saints of the Old Testament, including Israelites, will be resurrected at the second coming o...